A commentary of M. I. Calvin upon the Epistle to the GalatiansA commentarie of M. I. Caluine vpon the Epistle to the Galathians

IT is sufficiently known what part of Asia the Galatians inhabited, and with what limits their Country was bounded: but whence they had their beginning, appeareth not so well among Writers. All agree that they were Gauls: and thereof they were named Gaulegrecians. But out of what part of Gaul (or France) they came, they do not so well agree. Strabo thought that the Tectosages came out of Gaul Narbon, and that the other were Celtae: whom all for the most part have followed. But whereas Plinius reckoneth the Ambiani with t e Tectosagi, and beside that, by the consent of all, that they had the Tolistobogi to their fellows, who dwelt upon the borders of the Rhine: it seemeth to me more likely that they were the Belgae, inhabiting the farmost coast of the Rhine, toward the Britain Sea. For the Tolistobogi held that portion in which now the Cleveners and Brabanders do inhabit. But hereof sprung the error, in my opinion: that whereas some band of the Tectosages had made an inroad into Gaul Narbon, they retained their name, & called the Region which they by force possessed, by it. And this doth Ausonius show, where he saith, Even so far as to the Teutosagi who at the first were called Belgae. For he both calleth them Belgae: & testifieth that in the beginning they were called Teutosagi, who afterward were named Tectosagi. And whereas Caesar doth place the Tectosagi in the wood called Hercinia, I understand that to be done by going out of their own country thither: and by the story you may also gather it. But as touching the original of the Nation, more than sufficient hath ben spoken, as in regard of the present place. The Galatians which held that portion of Asia which toke the nam of them, as they were divided into 3. principal peoples, namely the Tectosages, Tolistobogi, & the Trocmi, so also, saith Pliny, they had three principal Cities. They