Appendix 5:1

STRUCTURAL OUTLINE OF THE TEXT OF GALATIANS

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HEADING:                Core Statement:                      Scripture Text:
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PRESCRIPTIO                                                  1.1-5
   Superscriptio                                                 1.1-2a
   Adscriptio                                                    1.2b
   Salutatio                                                     1.3-5

PROPOSITIO (PROEM)      1-7                                  1.6-10

BODY                    8-192                                1.11-6.10
    Narratio                8-52                                 1.11-2.21
        Thesis                  8-11                                 1.11-12
        Evidences               12-52                                1.13-2.21
            1                       12-16                                1.13-17
            2                       17-20                                1.18-20
            3                       21-24                                1.21-24
            4                       25-35                                2.1-10
            5                       36-41                                2.11-14
        Conclusion                  42-52                            2.15-21

    Probatio                53-139                               3.1-4.31
        Conversion (1)          53-59                                3.1-5
        Abraham    (2)          60-69                                3.6-14
        Law        (3)          70-78                                3.15-18
            Excursus A              79-89                                3.19-25
        Baptism    (4)          90-104                               3.26-4.7
        Experience (5)          105-108                              4.8-11
        Friendship (6)          109-121                              4.12-20
        Allegory   (7)          122-139                              4.21-31

    Exhortatio              140-191                              5.1-6.10
        Admonition 1            140-159                              5.1-12
        Admonition 2            160-173                              5.13-24
        Admonition 3            174-191                              5.25-6.10

CONCLUSIO               192-204                              6.11-18
    Seal                    192                                  6.11
    Synopsis                193-201                              6.12-16
    Request                 202-203                              6.17
    Benedictio              204                                  6.18


1Taken from Lorin L. Cranford, A Study Manual of Paul's Letter to the Galatians: English Text (Fort Worth: Scripta Publishing, Inc., 1982), 159. All rights reserved.