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Paul’s letter to the Galatians may be the boldest exposition of the Gospel and one of the best examples of how Paul’s theology first and foremost emerged within the framework of a living community. Dunn’s sensitivity to the letter’s larger flow of thought and his adept hand at guiding us through the sometimes murky waters of Paul’s thought combine to make this commentary refreshingly accessible...

How is it (then) that you are turning back again to the weak and beggarly elemental forces? Again the idiom is very Jewish. ‘Turn back’ was the characteristic Jewish call for repentance—to turn back to God, to turn back from evil (BDB, s̆ūb 6c, d). But the same word was also used of turning back from God, that is, of apostasy (e.g. Num. 14:43; 1 Sam. 15:11; 1 Kings 9:6; Ps. 78:41; Jer. 3:19; but LXX usually uses a different compound of the verb—TDNT vii.724). The assessment was not merely ironic:
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