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We are coming right to the end of Galatians and then Ephesians. It gets smaller as we go forward. Thessalonians, there is nothing. There is one occurrence in Timothy and I am not even going to do it. So we are really approaching the last lap on this. Finishing off Galatians, I'm going to skip Galatians 4:13. So now as I am looking at it, it might have been an awkward place to make the transition from one week to the next. We talked at some length about the covenantal historical reading of Galatians which changes it from law in the sense of God making legal demands on all his creatures--that is, whatever the will of God is to God's covenant with Israel which was a legal covenant but was also intentionally designed to exclude Gentiles. In that sense it puts the Sinai Covenant at odds with the promise made to Abraham that all the nations of the earth would be bless in him. Now it doesn't necessarily contradict it. I think that would be saying too much. But it might have been hard to see the way forward if the covenant people were exclusively Abraham's decedents by DNA and the inclusion of the Gentiles...