Transcript 21may2011 - House of David Fellowship

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
1
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
2
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
3
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
4
How we're going to roll
Consider my presentation like an
attorney presenting a case, establishing
a baseline of facts, and then connecting
all the dots to understand the letter to
the Galatians.
 I will demonstrate how Paul has to
explain Hebraic concepts mis-taught by
his opponents using Roman principles.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
5
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
6
The Merits of Character Assassination
The act of deliberately attempting to
destroy a person's reputation by
defamatory remarks.
 Collins English Dictionary – Complete
and Unabridged © HarperCollins
Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000,
2003

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
7
The Merits of Character Assassination
The slandering of a person usually with
the intention of destroying public
confidence in that person.
 Merriam-Webster online

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
8
The Merits of Character Assassination
It may involve exaggeration, misleading
half-truths, or manipulation of facts to
present an untrue picture of the targeted
person.
 Wikipedia online
 What if the picture is true? Is it still
character assassination?
 Is that a problem?

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
9
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
10
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
11
Love Your Enemies…Not so much

But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and
persecute you. KJV Matthew 5:44
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
12
Love Your Enemies…Not so much

But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached
unto you, let him be accursed.
KJV Galatians 1:8
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
13
Love Your Enemies…Not so much

As we said before, so say I now again,
If any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that ye have received, let
him be accursed.
KJV Galatians 1:9
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
14
Love Your Enemies…Not so much
Yeshua had his moments too…
 “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the damnation of
hell?” KJV Matthew 23:33.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
15
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
16
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
17
Intra-Jewish Polemic
What is a Polemic?
 A polemic is a variety of argument or
controversy made against one opinion,
doctrine, or person. Other variations of
argument are debate and discussion.
 The word is derived from the Greek
πολεmικός, meaning ‘warlike, hostile’.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
18
Intra-Jewish Polemic
What is a Polemic?
 A polemic is a form of dispute, wherein
the main efforts of the disputing parties
are aimed at establishing the superiority
of their own points of view regarding an
issue.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
19
Intra-Jewish Polemic
Journal of Biblical Studies, #112, 3
(1993) pp. 459-477, James D. G. Dunn
 Echoes of Intra-Jewish Polemic in
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
20
Intra-Jewish Polemic
No one will need to be reminded that
Galatians is one of the most polemical
documents in all the Bible.
 The typically polite thanksgiving of the
normal letter opening is replaced by the
indignation and fiery anathema of 1:6-9.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
21
Intra-Jewish Polemic

The Jerusalem opposition is described
with a series of weasel words — “false
brothers smuggled in, who sneaked in
to spy on our freedom” (2:4).
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
22
Intra-Jewish Polemic
Jerusalem itself is identified with Hagar
and dumped in the slavery column in
the opposing columns of 4:21-27,
 And the Galatians are encouraged to
throw out the other missionaries as
Sarah encouraged Abraham to throw
out Hagar and Ishmael…

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
23
Intra-Jewish Polemic
Such language and tactics are typical of
factional polemic the world over. In spirit
and tone at least, it is not particularly
Jewish or Christian.1
 L Τ Johnson, “The New Testament's
Anti-Jewish Slander and the
Conventions of Ancient Polemic,”
JBL 108 (1989) 419 - 441

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
24
Intra-Jewish Polemic
At the same time, there are some
elements that seem to echo more
specifically intra-Jewish polemic and it
is these on which this [20 page] paper
focuses.
 p. 459

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
25
Intra-Jewish Polemic
Examples: Intra-Jewish factional
disputes abound in the last 200 years of
Second Temple Judaism.
 Typically, one faction would claim to be
“righteous” and condemn others as
“sinners”
 1 Macc 1:34; 2:44, 48; 1 Enoch 5:4-7;
82:4-5; Pss. Sol. 4:8; 13:6-12

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
26
Intra-Jewish Polemic

For while “sinner” still denoted
sustained disregard for and breach of
the law, the disregard and breach were
evidently more often in the eye of the
beholder than not.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
27
Intra-Jewish Polemic
What was at issue, in other words, was
sectarian (or factional) interpretation of
the law, halakic dispute of such intensity
that the issues were regarded by the
“righteous” as make or break, as
determinative of the others’ acceptability
or unacceptability to God.
 p. 463
 Messy-antics

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
28
Intra-Jewish Polemic
Matthew 9:10 And it came to pass, as
Yeshua sat down for a meal at meat in
the house, behold, many publicans and
sinners came and sat down with him
and his disciples.
 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they
said unto his disciples, “Why does your
Master eat with publicans and sinners?”

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
29
Intra-Jewish Polemic
12 But when Yeshua heard that, he said
unto them, “They that be whole need
not a physician, but they that are sick.
 13 But go ye and learn what that
meaneth, ‘I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice’: for I am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
30
Intra-Jewish Polemic
To be noted once again is the fact that,
as in the case of Yeshua, the
accusation was being brought by Jews
against fellow Jews.
 Although the language referred to nonJews (“Gentile sinners”), the issue was
still an intra-Jewish one — the issue of
covenant loyalty, of Torah piety, of
avoiding contamination by the “sinner.”

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
31
Intra-Jewish Polemic
And since it involved disagreement
between Jews on what was and what
was not permissible in associating with
Gentiles, the issue was in fact one of
intra-Jewish factional dispute.
 pp. 464-465

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
32
Intra-Jewish Polemic

So the author(s) of Jubilees condemn(s)
both the sons of Israel who failed to
circumcise their sons as “making
themselves like the Gentiles,”
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
33
Intra-Jewish Polemic

and also those Jews who used a
different calendar to calculate the feast
days for ‘forgetting the feasts of the
covenant and walking in the feasts of
the gentiles, after their errors and after
their ignorance” (15:33-34; 6:15).
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
34
Intra-Jewish Polemic
So, what is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 A warlike and hostile argument between
Jews of differing halakhic beliefs with
the intention of out yelling one another,
thereby establishing their belief as the
superior one.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
35
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
36
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
37
Peter and Paul do lunch
2:11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I
opposed him to his face, because he
was at fault.
 12 For before some came from James,
he was eating with the gentiles, but
when they arrived, he began to
withdraw and separate himself, in fear
of those of the circumcision.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
38
Peter and Paul do lunch
What has just happened?
 Peter, like these other factions within
Second Temple Judaism, had now
made table fellowship a test case of
covenant identity and faithfulness, and
in concluding that the Gentile believers
failed that test (or rather that their
company caused him to fail that test)
had withdrawn from table fellowship
with them.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
39
Peter and Paul do lunch
13 And the other Jews joined him in his
hypocrisy, insomuch that Barnabas also
was led astray.
 14 When I saw that they were not acting
in line with the truth of the gospel, I said
to Peter in front of them all,
 (so much for taking a brother aside to
speak privately about a matter)

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
40
Peter and Paul do lunch
14 “If you, being a Jew, live like the
Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it
that you compel the Gentiles to live like
Jews?”
 Peter’s actions said… “You Gentiles will
need to become proselytes.”
 His previous actions said that table
fellowship with the Gentiles of faith was
OK.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
41
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
42
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
43
4QMMT
New Testament Studies, #43, (1997)
pp. 147-153, James D. G. Dunn
 4QMMT and Galatians
 4Q397 and 4Q398

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
44
4QMMT
The first point of interest is the selfdescription of the writer(s) of the scroll:
 ‘We have separated ourselves from the
multitude of the people [and from all
their impurity]’.
 This has been identified as a Sadducian
and Phariseian debate on purity
halakah.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
45
4QMMT
The second point is a discussion of the
blessings and curses (Gal 3:8-14)
 The third point is “works of the law”
 The Fourth point is “at the end of time,
you may rejoice in finding that some of
our words/practices are so/true/correct.
And it shall be reckoned to you for
righteousness.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
46
4QMMT
The fifth point is the calendar issues
 “To sum up, the four or five points of
parallel between 4QMMT and Galatians
surely give us sufficient grounds for
concluding that MMT preserves the sort
of theological attitude and halakhic
practice which in the event determined
the attitude and action of Peter and the
other Christian Jews in Antioch.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
47
4QMMT

But the weight of the evidence does
seem to suggest that MMT preserves a
vocabulary and manner of theologising
which left its mark on a wider spectrum
of Jewish thought and practice, and that
it was just this sort of theologising and
practice which confronted Paul in
Antioch and which he wrote Galatians to
counter. pp. 152-153.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
48
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
49
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
50
The Holy Spirit as key
New Zeitschrift für die
Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
 Journal of the Science and the New
Testament Church of the elderly client
 The Words of the Luminaries, the Curse
of the Law, and the Outpouring of the
Spirit in Gal 3:10–14 by Rodrigo J.
Morales (his translations)

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
51
The Holy Spirit as key
The key question that drives this section
of the letter [3:10-14], and indeed the
majority of Galatians 3–6, is the
Galatians’ reception of the Spirit.
 “This alone I want to know from you:
was it from works of the Law that you
received the Spirit, or from the
proclamation of faith?” (Gal 3:2).

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
52
The Holy Spirit as key

Likewise, he rounds out the first part of
the argument by describing Christ’s act
of (1) redeeming “us” from the curse of
the Law “in order that the (2) blessing
might come upon the Gentiles in Christ
Jesus, in order that we might receive
the promise of the (3) Spirit through
faith” (Gal 3:14).
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
53
The Holy Spirit as key
Clearly Paul sees a close connection
between (1) redemption from the curse,
the extension of the (2) blessing to
the Gentiles, and the reception of the
(3) Spirit.
 It is the Spirit, I will argue, that plays a
key role in determining how Paul
understands the curse of the Law in Gal
3:10–14.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
54
The Holy Spirit as key

Specifically, Paul’s conclusion in 3:14
presupposes a Jewish tradition seen in
Isaiah, the Words of the Luminaries
(4Q504), and the Testament of Judah,
that presents the gifts of the (2) blessing
and the (3) Spirit as a sign of
(1) Israel’s eschatological redemption.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
55
The Holy Spirit as key
A. Isaiah - In his groundbreaking work
The Faith of Jesus Christ, Richard Hays
suggests in passing that Paul may join
the Spirit and the blessing in Galatians
3:14 in light of a similar conjunction in
Isaiah 44:2–3, the only passage in the
OT to associate these two words closely.
 The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative
Substructure of Galatians 3:1–4:11, pp.
182–183.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
56
The Holy Spirit as key

A. Isaiah 43:14–21 describes God’s
promise to lead Israel in a new exodus by
making a way in the wilderness for them
and causing water to spring forth there.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
57
The Holy Spirit as key

B. Isaiah 43:22–28, provides an account
of why Israel suffered: Israel had failed to
call upon God and to bring him offerings
and as a result God “profaned the
princes of the sanctuary [and] delivered
Jacob to utter destruction, and Israel to
reviling.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
58
The Holy Spirit as key

C. Isaiah 44:3b [LXX] God promises to
pour out his Spirit upon Israel: “I will pour
my Spirit upon your seed, and my
blessings upon your children”.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
59
The Holy Spirit as key

D. Isaiah 44:1–8 thus speaks of God’s
mercy upon Israel following her
punishment, and several images from
this passage (“seed,” “blessing,” “Spirit,”
God as “redeemer”) feature prominently
in Gal 3:10–14.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
60
The Holy Spirit as key
2. The Words of the Luminaries (4Q504)
 “And [you] did not desert us amongst the
nations. You did favors to your people
Israel among all [the] countries amongst
whom you had exiled them, to place
upon their heart to turn to you and to
listen to your voice [in agreement] with all
that You commanded through the hand
of Moses, your servant.”
(4Q504 5.10b–14; cf. Deut 30,1–2)

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
61
The Holy Spirit as key
2. The Words of the Luminaries (4Q504)
 “For you have poured your Holy Spirit
(hk`dwq jwr) upon us, to bestow your
blessings to us.” (4Q504 5.15–16)

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
62
The Holy Spirit as key
2. The Words of the Luminaries (4Q504)
 The Words of the Luminaries thus
associates the gift of God’s Spirit with the
restoration of Israel after its punishment
for failure to keep the covenant.
 Drawing on Isaiah 44, the prayer
presents Israel’s reception of God’s Holy
Spirit and of the blessings as the sign
that God has redeemed Israel from the
curses of Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
63
The Holy Spirit as key
3. The Testament of Judah
 In ch. 23, Judah laments the sins his
sons will commit and the resultant
punishment they will receive, described
in the language of Deuteronomy and
Leviticus.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
64
The Holy Spirit as key
3. The Testament of Judah
 “And the heavens will be opened upon
him [a messianic figure] to pour out the
Spirit as a blessing (pneumatoj eulogian) of
the Holy Father. And he will pour out the
Spirit of grace on you. And you shall be
sons in truth, and you will walk in his first
and final decrees”.
 24:2-3

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
65
The Holy Spirit as key
3. The Testament of Judah
 Following, the text proceeds to depict the
resurrection of the patriarchs Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and to promise a
kingdom to the sons of Israel.
 25:1-2

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
66
The Holy Spirit as key
3. The Testament of Judah
 Paul interprets the (3) Spirit both as
the fulfillment of God’s promise to
Abraham to (2) bless the Gentiles and as
the long awaited sign that God had finally
(1) redeemed Israel from the curses of
Deuteronomy.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
67
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
68
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
69
Life in the Spirit
Galatians 5:13 – 6:10
 13 Brethren, ye have been called unto
liberty; only do not use that liberty for an
occasion to indulge the sinful nature.
 16 This I say then, Walk by the leading of
the Spirit, and you will not carry out the
desire of the flesh.
 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are
not under the penalty.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
70
Life in the Spirit
Galatians 5:13 – 6:10
 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.
 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
71
Life in the Spirit
Galatians 5:13 – 6:10
 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of
the flesh reap corruption; but he that
soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
life everlasting.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
72
Conclusion of Galatians
The Merits of Character Assassination
 Love Your Enemies…Not so much
 What is an Intra-Jewish Polemic?
 Peter and Paul do lunch
 4QMMT – The Works of the Law
 The Holy Spirit as key
 How life in the Spirit proceeds

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
73
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
74
paidagwgo.j
Paul wants to explain to his audience,
which is relatively new in their faith, that
the role of the Torah, prior to accepting
Yeshua, is the paidagwgo.j.
 Paul will use an appropriate element from
the Galatians' own culture to make a very
Jewish point.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
75
paidagwgo.j
The law is here represented as an
overseer or guardian, to keep watch of
those committed to its care, to
accompany them with its commands and
prohibitions, and to keep them in a
condition of dependence and restraint…
 Vincent

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
76
paidagwgo.j
“Originally, ‘boy-leader’, the man, usually
a slave…whose duty it was to conduct a
boy or youth…to and from school and to
superintend his conduct generally;
 When the young man became of age, the
paidagwgo.j should no longer be needed.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
77
paidagwgo.j
This “guardian” (ESV) would try to instill
in the boys a basic sense of who a
responsible citizen was until the boys
were old enough to take care of
themselves.
 A Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature, BDAG, p. 748

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
78
paidagwgo.j
“Our sharp-eyed and efficient supervisor
of the education of the young must
redirect their natural development along
the right lines, by always setting them on
the paths of goodness as embodied in the
legal code.”
 Plato, Laws 7.809. 428-347 B.C.E.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
79
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
80
Role of Torah
“For the unredeemed, the Torah was
intended to preserve the mental, moral
and social safety of the environment into
which an individual was born and raised.
 The person was protected ‘until the date
set by the Father’ (Galatians 4:2) when
the Spirit of Holiness would lead them to
the Teacher, the Messiah.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
81
Role of Torah

The Torah does this by providing a safe
environment in which they may live. The
judgments, commandments, ordinances
and other teachings of the Torah all help
to create a safe community surrounded
by the protective border of the Torah.
Anyone who lives within the confines of
that border will live in relative safety.
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
82
Role of Torah
This does not mean that the person living
within the borders of the Torah is
automatically safe spiritually, or ‘saved’;
rather, living within the Torah community,
his life is being preserved and protected
as he awaits the time set by the Father…”
 Torah Rediscovered by Ariel and D’vorah
Berkowitz.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
83
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
84
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
85
Circumcision = Conversion
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage.
 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye
be circumcised, Christ shall profit you
nothing.
 3 For I testify again to every man that is
circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the
whole law.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
86
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
87
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
88
Overview of Galatians
1. Who is Paul and why you need to know
 2. Where did he get his message from?
 3. My relationship with the pillars
 4. Why I yelled at Peter
 5. An “MMT” mentality is not the way to go
 6. Did you receive the Spirit by ‘works’ or
by ‘faith’?

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
89
Overview of Galatians

7. Torah is important but we must not
overlook the order established with
Abraham
8. The role of the paidagwgo.j
 9. Roman patria potestas
 10. Reject these false missionaries
 11. Conversion causes a fall from grace
 12. Let the Spirit do her work.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
90
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
91
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
92
Heirs and slaves
THINK: What was he combating from the
other missionaries?
 3:29 …heirs according to the promise.
 4:1 The heir, as long as he is a child,
differs not from a slave as far as execution
of the business of the estate even though
legally, by right of birth, he [is] will be Lord
of all.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
93
Heirs and slaves
4:2 But is under supervisors until the time
appointed by the father.
 3 So we also, when we were children,
were in bondage under the elementary
matters of the world, being enslaved
(personal and elemental spirits).
 “All things had their special angels”
Vincent – Lengthy explanation

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
94
Heirs and slaves
4:4 But when the fulness of the time was
come, God sent forth his Son, made of a
woman, made under the law,
 5 To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of
sons.
 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent
forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts,
crying, Abba, Father.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
95
Heirs and slaves
4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant,
but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God
through Christ.
 We are already heirs of God, so we don’t
need to “MMT” our way to be an heir.

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
96
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
97
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
98
Galatians 4:8-11
4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God,
you were slaves to those who by nature
are not gods.
 9 But now that you know God - or rather
are known by God - how is it that you are
turning back to those weak and miserable
principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by
them all over again?

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
99
Galatians 4:8-11
4:10 You are observing days and months
and seasons and years. (not like Col 2:17)
 “Hence the polemical denunciation already
noted above: to observe a feast on the
wrong date was not to observe the feast,
but to ‘forget the feasts of the covenant
and walk in the feasts of the gentiles, after
their errors and after their ignorance’”
(Jub. 6:32-35). Dunn, p. 471

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
100
Galatians 4:8-11
…to commit ‘sin like the sinners’.
(I Enoch 82:4-7; see also 1QS 1:14-15;
CD 3:14-15).
 Mark 2:23 – 3:5
 “…went through the corn fields on the
Sabbath day ‘doing what was not lawful’…”
 “And they watched him, whether he would
heal him on the Sabbath day; that they
might accuse him.”

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
101
Galatians 4:8-11
4:11 I fear for you, that perhaps I have
labored over you in vain.
 The calendar they are keeping (which is
different from the Hebraic calendar he
taught them) tells him that they have fallen
for the MMT path which means no more
dependence on the Spirit but switching to
the flesh to accomplish hiership.
 Omer 28/32

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
102
Conclusion of Galatians
The Custodian ( Greek paidagwgo.j )
 The Role of Torah
 Review: Circumcision = Conversion
 Overview of Galatian Letter
 Chapter 4:1-7 Heirs and slaves
 Days, months, times, and years
 Conclusions

May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
103
May 21, 2011
http://hodf.org
104
May 21, 2011
September
28, 2010
http://hodsbs.org
http://hodf.org
105