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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (370)	6/27/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 14396

Quotation marks? It is important to me to understand the passage. For instance in verse 15: "We are Jews by nature, and not sinners from among the Gentiles" This sounds like a continuation of Paul's discussion with Peter. If it is -- Paul is first identifying with Peter according to their common Jewish background and then pointing out that "even we have believed ..." They came to the new/better relationship with God the same way as the Gentiles. This would seem to make the passage stronger in that this was from an actual conversation in which Paul had to oppose Peter. Otherwise, the "We" above refers to who? Doesn't seem to refer to Paul and the Galatians -- clearly some of these are Gentiles, not sharing Paul's Jewish ancestry, correct? >>29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly;<< I'm not sure this is a parallel thought to the one which Paul was trying to express in the passage which I just quoted, but I do see how it could be taken as such. It turns on the interpretation of "by nature." I think Paul is being literal in Galatians. Do you?