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Galatians 5 is the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle for the churches in Galatia, written between AD 49–58. [1] This chapter contains a discussion about circumcision and the allegory of the "Fruit of the Holy Spirit". [2]
The Epistle to the Galatians [a] is the ninth book of the New Testament.It is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia.Scholars have suggested that this is either the Roman province of Galatia in southern Anatolia, or a large region defined by Galatians, an ethnic group of Celtic people in central Anatolia. [3]
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit (sometimes referred to as the Fruits of the Holy Spirit [2]) is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness ...
The Galatians (Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, romanized: Galátai; Latin: Galatae, Galati, Gallograeci; Greek: Γαλάτες, romanized: Galátes, lit. 'Gauls') were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia , a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period . [ 1 ]
The New Testament uses a number of athletic metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews.Such metaphors also appear in the writings of contemporary philosophers, such as Epictetus and Philo, [2] drawing on the tradition of the Olympic Games; [3] this may have influenced New Testament use of the imagery.
Galatians may refer to: Galatians (people) Epistle to the Galatians, a book of the New Testament; English translation of the Greek Galatai or Latin Galatae, Galli, or ...
The terms "Galatians" came to be used by the Greeks for the three Celtic peoples of Anatolia: the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii. [2] [3] By the 1st century BC, the Celts had become so Hellenized that some Greek writers called them Hellenogalatai (Ἑλληνογαλάται). [4] [5] The Romans called them Gallograeci. [5]
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