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Pages:: 188–190

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004532618_006

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I conclude that as each Galatian church gathered to hear Paul’s letter read, there were freedpersons among them—persons who had lived in slavery and who had likely paid a high price to be set free from it. Their goal was not the Stoic ideal of inner freedom—they longed and worked and sacrificed to achieve freedom of a different kind. While Paul was not explicit about the freedom that Christ provided in regards to slavery, it is likely that the Holy Spirit enabled the freed slaves in the Galatians churches, through their lived experience, to understand the full implications present in Paul’s proclamation of freedom.

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Paul's Declaration of Freedom from a Freed Slave's Perspective

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 210

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004532618

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Mar 2023

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- Biblical Studies
  - Biblical Interpretations
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