The life and work of St. Paul

IMFORTANOEjOF THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIA.NS. 425
Bnt that for the time the Apostle triumphed that whether in consequence of
an actual exertion of power, or of a genuine repentance on the part of his
opponents, his authority was once more firmly established we may infer from
his hint that until the Corinthian difficulties were removed he could take no
sther task in hand, and that in the Epistles which he wrote during these
three months of his residence at the Achaian capital ho contemplates yet
wider missions and freely yields himself to new activities.!
Yet, amid our ignorance of facts, we do possess the means of reading
the inmost thoughts which were passing through the soul of St, Paul. The
two Epistles which he despatched during those three months were in many
'respects the most important that he ever wrote, and it inspires us with the
highest estimate of his intellectual power to know that, within a period so
short and so much occupied with other duties and agitations, he yet found
time to dictate the Letter to the Galatians, which marks an epoch in the
history of the Church, and the Letter to the Romans, which may well be
regarded as the most important of all contributions to the system of its
theology. _^__^^
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