Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette,

Louisiana.

Okay. So we'll go ahead and get started and when we get started here in just a moment,

we'll be picking up in St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians chapter 2 verse 1.

We left off at a chapter break last time after I spent, what was was it the better part of an hour or the

worst part depending on your perspective doing an introduction to the book of

Galatians and so by the time anyone's hearing this recording you'll be able to go

back and listen to that recording if you want to hear the

Introduction and of course we're only one chapter

really one chapter in but even though we left off at a chapter break it wasn't this chapter break in particular was not really a break in the text Yeah, I noticed that yeah

It was just sort of a convenient place to end last time.

So to get us caught up again a little bit, as we saw the usual sort of introduction to the letter

by St. Paul.

We talked about how this being one of the,

not the earliest, probably, although it could be, but one of the earliest epistles that St. Paul

wrote. And after his usual sort of introduction, as we've talked about several times

going through St. Paul's epistles now st paul tends to in the early

part of the epistle sort of lay out the themes or at least introduce them tease them a little

um the themes that he's going to address in more detail later on in the letter so he kind of lays

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