“Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.”
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. — Paul's anthropological diagnosis: the Galatians' pre-Christian condition was enslavement to false deities ('theoi' — gods, but not truly divine), suggesting demonic powers, pagan religion, or the 'stoicheia' reframed as false divine claimants.
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