to whom be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

(I am writing you the sheer truth, I swear it before God!)

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,

would that I could be with you at this moment, and alter my tone, for I am at my wits' end about you!

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!