Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Epistle of Paul to the Churches of Galatia
That Paul wrote this Epistle is shown by the external evidence of manuscripts, of early translations, of allusions beginning with the apostolic fathers, of formal citations beginning with the sub-Apostolic Age, and of uniform reception by the church down from her first attempts at forming a canon of New Testament Scripture; - in short, by every kind of external evidence which the nature of the case admits of. It is shown, too, by internal evidence, which here is quite irresistible, not only in the harmony of the Epistle, as regards doctrine and other indications of authorship, both with what is elsewhere ascertainable about Paul and his writings, and with the more general history and characters of the Apostolic Age, but also and especially in the manifest impossibility that this Epistle should have been written by any man but Paul.
There was no period later than his lifetime in which any church party could have any interest in forging such an Epistle as this, or in which any section of the Christian church would have received such a forgery as genuine. And it may be safely said that, even in his lifetime, no creature could have written it but Paul, precisely in such a crisis - so fitted to call forth the characteristics of his utterance into almost exaggerated manifestation - as that which is implied in the Epistle throughout.
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