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Galatian, n. and a.|gəˈleɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. Galatia + -an.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Galatia, an ancient country of central Asia Minor.
b. pl. St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Galatia or its people.
1587J. Prime Exposition upon St. Paul to Galathians 15 The Galathians were deeply plunged in the sea, the fault was most in the mariners. 1611Bible Galat. iii. 1, O foolish Galatians [1388 Wyclif: Galathies; 1526 Tindale: Galathyans], who hath bewitched you? 1842Browning Bells & Pomegranates iii. 6/2 There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations. 1853J. Brown Exposition Epistle of Paul to Galatians v. ii. 208 Some of the Galatian converts had yielded to the Judaising teachers. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 19/2 Unless the churches of Derbe, Lystra, &c., be regarded as Galatian, we are left in ignorance of the names..of the churches addressed. Ibid. 20/1 The Galatians..continued to make use of their ancient dialect. 1912C. W. Emmet St. Paul's Epistle to Galatians p. xxi, Romans was in fact originally written as a circular letter addressed to mixed Churches..at the same time as Galatians. 1950R. Heard Introd. N.T. xviii. 182 Who were the Galatians? This is one of the classical controversies of New Testament criticism. Two answers are possible. The first..is that they were the inhabitants of North Galatia... The second answer, more generally accepted by recent critics, is that the ‘Galatians’ were not Galatians by race..but Christians of those towns in the southern part of the Roman province of Galatia which Paul and Barnabas had visited on their first missionary journey. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 535/1 St. Paul wrote this letter to his Galatian converts. |