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Title: Paul’s Exhortations in Gal 5,16-25
Subtitle: From the Apostle’s Techniques to His Theology
Author(s): ALETTI, Jean-Noël
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 94    Issue: 3   Date: 2013   
Pages: 395-414
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.94.3.3186157

Abstract :
After having shown that Gal 5,13-25 forms a rhetorical and semantic unit, the article examines Gal 5,17, a crux interpretum, and proves that the most plausible reading is this one: 'For the flesh desires against the Spirit — but the Spirit desires against the flesh, for those [powers] fight each other — to prevent you from doing those things you would', and draws its soteriological consequences.

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