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Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Commentators explain that Paul's greeting is packed with meaning. He intentionally uses "grace" (charis), which is especially significant in this letter where the Galatians were abandoning salvation by grace. "Peace" refers to the wholeness and right relationship with God that grace provides. As one scholar notes, there can be no true peace without first receiving God's grace.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Grace be to you, etc. This is the usual apostolic salutation, imploring for them the blessing of God. See Barnes on Romans 1:7.
Grace to you and peace (χαρις υμιν κα ειρηνη). As in I Thess., II Thess., I Cor., II Cor. (already written) and in all the later E…
19th Century
Anglican
Grace . . . and peace. See Note on Romans 1:7.
God the Father. We may see by this verse …
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Paul’s nearly standard formula of Christian blessing and greeting seems particularly appropriate at the start of this letter. Normally, Paul alters…
16th Century
Protestant
Grace be to you and peace. This form of salutation, which occurred in the other epistles, has received an explanation, to which I still ad…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Grace to you After the inscription above, in which the writer of the epistle, and the persons joined to him, are des…
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St. Paul was an apostle of Jesus Christ; he was expressly appointed by Him, and therefore by God the Father, who is one with Him in His divine natu…
13th Century
Catholic
The Apostle, therefore, writes this epistle to the Galatians to show that with the coming of the grace of the New Testament, the Old Testament shou…
