Hi, Mike,

I finished reading through your draft of the commentary today.

First, I’m thankful to the Lord after reading it for the artistry and the beauty of the structure of the letter, which are reflected in the way you have carefully put the book together. My men’s group spent the last year studying Galatians together, and we were struggling with a couple of sections that just seemed almost random – the placing of 2:20 and the analogies to the slave and the free woman. Your commentary clears a lot of that up by allowing us to see the key place they have in the way Paul makes his argument.

Personally, I was helped by the sections where there would be a missing part to the patterns. I had considered places like that before as stopping places. I can now see that even in that there is intentionality and a point, something that our Lord wants to communicate. This helped me understand something I missed in Section 20 of Bible Matrix II.

I must agree with your comment that the structure brought tears to your eyes. I’m immensely thankful for the opportunity to read it…

I want to make a final comment. In traditional commentaries, long sections are devoted to controversies. I was refreshed by the fact that in this particular commentary, the structure of the text itself and its fractal nature were quite convincing about defective views of baptism and justification in such a way that you did not need to break the flow to discuss things like paedobaptism or the New Perspective. For that I was also very thankful.

May the Lord bless greatly the profit and enjoyment of all who read this commentary. And may He use it greatly for the building up of the Church.