Sometimes what is omitted by the church’s lectionaries is interesting. Among the passages not appointed to be read from Paul’s second earliest letter, Galatians, are the verses that follow Paul’s words, “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”[1]
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