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When the vast tide of Aryan migration began to set to the westward the Celtic family was among the earliest to stream away. They gradually occupied a great part of the centre and west of Europe, and their various tribes were swept hither and thither by various currents. One of their Brennuses, four centuries B.C., inflicted on Rome its deepest humiliation. Another, 111 years later, ravaged Northern Greece, and when its hordes were driven back at Delphi they found another body under Leonnorius and Lutarius, and established themselves in the northern regions of Asia Minor. But their exactions soon roused an opposition which led to their confinement to the central region. Here we find them in three tribes: the Tolistobogii, with their capital Pessinus; the Tectosages, with their capital Ancyra; the Trocmi, with their capital Tavium. These tribes were, in B.C. 65, united under Deiotarus, tetrarch of the Tolistobogii. The Romans had conquered them in B.C. 189, but had left them nominally independent; and in B.C. 36 Mark Antony made Amyntas king. On his death, B.C. 25, Galatia was joined to Lycaonia and part of Pisidia, and made a Roman province. This was its political condition when Paul entered Pessinus.

(F. W. Farrar.)Note —

I.  The brotherhood of Christians;

II.  Their united action;

III.  Their interest in distant churches.

(J. Lyth.)

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KJV: And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

WEB: and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: