{Commentarii in Epistolam D. Pauli ad Ephesios, facili et perspicua methodo conscripti. A D. Benedicto Aretio bernensi theologo. Cum indice rerum memorabilium quae in hisce continentur. Posterior haec}

(to be seen) in chapter 4, because they had received him as if he were an Angel of God. Likewise, certain παραινετικὰ admonitory (points) in chapter 5, where he admonishes concerning necessary virtues.

PROPOSITION.

A double proposition is to be considered. The former is personal, and therefore special, and the whole Epistle looks to this. Namely, that the Galatians should have persisted constantly in the simplicity of the Pauline doctrine, and not offered themselves so easily to seducers toward defection. The whole argumentation now looks to this, such as that in the title he shows that he was not called by men, nor through man, but by God Himself through Christ. Therefore you ought not in the least to have fallen away from my doctrine. Then, in the beginning, (he speaks) from the person of the new doctors, who, he says, disturb you, against the mind of Christ, having introduced a new Gospel: therefore they were not to be listened to at all. Thus in the Narration, he contends the same from the author of his doctrine, who is the Son of God Himself. Therefore, it was not to be surrendered so easily. Likewise, what is held in the same Narration, that his doctrine was not corrected by the Apostles in any part afterward, although he had gone to Jerusalem specifically for that reason. Likewise, that Paul himself rather corrected Peter, and that in the observance of legalities, which legalities the Galatians had again admitted in the Jewish manner. And Peter bore this correction with an even mind. And this is the first proposition. The other pertains to use, and