Commentaries on Galatians
Below I have listed most of the commentaries on Galatians that I am using for this series. This list includes the top three commentaries at the Best Commentaries website (Bruce, George, Longenecker) as well as some commentaries of historical importance such as Calvin, Luther, and Ramsey.
Note that the Timothy George commentary I am using is the second edition which technically has a lower ranking at the Best Commentaries website than the first edition (NAC). I consider the second edition to be even better than the first. I would probably rank the second edition as the best commentary on Galatians in English that we have in print.
There are some other commentaries I would use if they weren’t so expensive (for instance, the Annotations on Galatians and Ephesians by Erasmus).
The second table lists some of the other reference works I plan to use. There are theological works on Galatians and works on or by Luther and Calvin among other subjects. You may notice that I have listed six volumes by Michael Horton. I find Professor Horton to be very helpful in the area of Justification. Although we can certainly learn from the New Perspective on Paul I still think that the Reformers correctly interpreted Paul by and large. Generally speaking I find Historical Theology to be a great help to our understanding of Scripture.
The third table lists the Series abbreviations.
Commentaries
| Author | Series | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Bray, Gerald L. | RCS | Galatians, Ephesians |
| Brown, John | GEN | Galatians |
| Bruce, F. F. | NIGTC | The Epistle to the Galatians |
| Calvin, John | n/a | John Calvin’s Commentaries On St. Paul’s Epistles To The Galatians And Ephesians |
| Cole, R. Alan | TNTC | Galatians |
| Edwards, Mark J. | ACCS | NT VIII Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians |
| Fung, Ronald Y. K. | NICNT | The Epistle to the Galatians |
| George, Timothy | CSC | Galatians |
| Keller, Timothy | GWFY | Galatians for You |
| Lightfoot, J. B. | ZC | The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians |
| Longenecker, Richard N. | WBC | Galatians |
| Luther, Martin | n/a1 | Galatians |
| Moo, Douglas J. | BECNT | Galatians |
| Ramsey, William | n/a | A Historical Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians |
| Rapa, Robert K. | REBC | Galatians |
| Ryken, Philip Graham | REC | Galatians |
| Schreiner, Thomas R. | ZECNT | Galatians |
| Sproul, R. C. | StAEC | Galatians: An Expositional Commentary |
| Tenney, Merrill C. | n/a | Galatians: The Charter of Christian Liberty |
| Wiersbe, Warren W. | Be Free: Exchange Legalism for True Spirituality | |
| Williams, Jarvis J. | NCCS | Galatians |
| Yuille, J. Stephen | n/a | The Fullness of Time: Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians |
Other References
| Author | Series | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, Michael; Linebaugh, Jonathan A. | n/a | Reformation Readings of Paul: Explorations in History and Exegesis |
| Bainton, Roland H. | n/a | Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther |
| Calvin, John | n/a | Institutes of the Christian Religion (Beveridge) |
| Calvin, John | TLCC | Institutes of the Christian Religion (McNeill/Battles) |
| Calvin, John | n/a | Sermons upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians |
| Carson, D. A.; Robinson Sr., Jeff | TGC | Christ Has Set Us Free: Preaching and Teaching Galatians |
| Colquhoun, John | n/a | A Treatise on the Law and Gospel |
| Gupta, Nijay K. | NWBT | Galatians |
| Horton, Michael | n/a | The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way |
| Horton, Michael | n/a | Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church |
| Horton, Michael | n/a | Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story |
| Horton, Michael | n/a | The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World |
| Horton, Michael | NSD | Justification, Volume 1 |
| Horton, Michael | NSD | Justification, Volume 2 |
| Machen, J. Gresham | n/a | The Origin of Paul’s Religion |
| Metaxas, Eric | n/a | Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World |
| Ngien, Dennis | n/a | Grace and Law in Galatians: Justification in Luther and Calvin |
| Roper, Lyndal | n/a | Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet |
| Roper, Lyndal | n/a | Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy |
| Schreiner, Thomas R. | n/a | Christ Crucified: A Theology of Galatians |
| Selderhuis, Herman | n/a | Martin Luther: A Spiritual Biography |
Series Abbreviations
| Series Abbreviation | Series Full Name |
|---|---|
| n/a | not applicable |
| ACCS | Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture |
| BE | BE Series |
| BECNT | Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament |
| CSC | Christian Standard Commentary |
| GEN | Geneva Series of Commentaries |
| GWFY | God’s Word For You |
| NAC | New American Commentary |
| NCCS | New Covenant Commentary Series |
| NICNT | New International Commentary on the New Testament |
| NIGTC | New International Greek Testament Commentary |
| NSD | New Studies in Dogmatics |
| NWBT | New Word Biblical Themes |
| RCS | Reformation Commentary on Scripture |
| REBC | Revised Expositor’s Bible Commentary |
| REC | Reformed Expository Commentary |
| StAEC | St. Andrew’s Expository Commentary |
| TGC | The Gospel Coalition |
| TLCC | The Library of Christian Classics |
| TNTC | Tyndale New Testament Commentaries |
| WBC | Word Biblical Commentary |
| ZC | Zondervan Commentary |
| ZECNT | Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament |
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I have multiple editions of Luther’s commentary on Galatians. I now prefer Martin Luther’s Commentary On Saint Paul’s Epistle To The Galatians: Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English translated by Haroldo S. Camacho. The translator has preserved all of the Latin text in translation. It seems likely that most other English translations do not contain all of Luther’s words. ↩