Hi, I'm Michael Barber, and this is my dear friend Jim Prothrow, and we're both professors here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School.

We're fascinated by St. Paul. I've written a book with my dear friend, Brand Petrie, and my other dear friend, John Kincaid, on Paul.

And Jim Prothro has a new book coming out on Paul through Catholic University of America Press.

So we thought we'd partner up and do a series on Galatians.

This is session two, part two of that series on Paul's letter to the Galatians.

Such a powerful letter.

You know, every letter of Paul has its own sort of flavor.

And this is the letter that I think Paul is the most passionate

in, or at least he's the angriest in. Most of his letters have these long introductions,

these sort of poetic introductions. Don't really see that as much in Galatians, right? He just

jumps right into the issues at hand, it seems.

Yeah, that's right.

You can see in a few places, we looked at last time, chapter 1, verse 6, where instead of what he usually

does and saying, I thank God for all of you and your faith, and now I'm going to talk about

some specific things that you need to know or need to fix. He just says, I'm astonished that you're so quickly deserting God. In chapter five, we'll see

this more today, but we mentioned last time. Chapter five, he's talking about some of the false

teachers who've come into Galatia, who are trying to get people to be circumcised

and telling them the men that if they're not circumcised, right, they won't be able to share

the life of Jesus and be saved. And Paul says in chapter 5, verse 12, I wish those who are bothering

you, right, would emasculate themselves, right?

He's getting after it, right?

At which they'd cut themselves off.

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