Intro To Galatians

“The epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.” Thus spoke Luther, who considered Galatians the best of all the books in the Bible. It has been called “the battle-cry of the Reformation,” “the great charter of religious freedom,” “the Christian declaration of independence,” etc. (William Hendriksen and Simon J. Kistemaker, Exposition of Galatians, vol. 8, New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1953–2001), 3.)

Martin Luther loved this epistle. It is “my epistle,” he said. “I have betrothed myself to it. It is my wife.” The epistle to the Galatians became Luther’s dagger to plunge into the heart of the papacy. It was his battle-ax in his ceaseless war with Rome. (John Phillips, Exploring Galatians: An Expository Commentary, The John Phillips Commentary Series (Kregel Publishers; WORDsearch Corp., 2009), Ga 1:1–2.)