“... (4) The final quotation in this passage, the excerpt from Deuteronomy 21:23 in 3:13, would have added more fuel to the audience’s growing distrust of Paul’s handling of Scripture. A glance at the original passage would have shown them that the verse that Paul quotes here actually refers to the ancient practice of hanging the dead body of a convicted criminal on a tree for public display, not the redeeming death of a crucified Messiah. Only by extracting the verse from its original context and revising its wording can Paul claim that it refers to the death of Jesus. For an audience that was aware of the original context, the tendentiousness of such a reading would have been utterly glaring. Thus we see that an audience that was familiar with the original context of Paul’s quotations in Galatians 3:10–13 would have been led inexorably toward a point of view that was the opposite of what Paul intended. ...”