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Ask a Questionin me--"in my case." "Having understood the entire change, and that the former wolf is now acting the shepherd's part, they received occasion for joyful thanksgiving to God in respect to me"...
Greek, "Let us not BECOME." While not asserting that the Galatians are "vainglorious" now, he says they are liable to become so. provoking one another--an effect of "vaingloriousness" on the...
lest--Greek, "lest haply." My fear is not for my own sake, but for yours.
from...from--Omit the second "from." The Greek joins God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ in closet union, by there being but the one preposition.
be glory--rather, as Greek, "be the glory"; the glory which is peculiarly and exclusively His. Compare Note, see on Eph 3:21.
doeth--Many depended on the law although they did not keep it; but without doing, saith Paul, it is of no use to them (Ro 2:13, 17, 23;10:5).
children--Greek, "sons." by--Greek, "through faith." "Ye all" (Jews and Gentiles alike) are no longer "children" requiring a tutor, but SONS emancipated and walking at liberty.
So far was I from being a disciple of the apostles, that I was even unknown in the churches of Judea (excepting Jerusalem, Ac 9:26-29), which were the chief scene of their labors.
Greek, "From those who," &c. He meant to complete the sentence with "I derived no special advantage"; but he alters it into "they...added nothing to me." accepteth--so as to show any partiality;...
certify--I made known to you as to the Gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man, that is, not of, by, or from man (Ga 1:1,12). It is not according to man; not influenced by mere...
the inheritance--all the blessings to be inherited by Abraham's literal and spiritual children, according to the promise made to him and to his Seed, Christ, justification and glorification (Ga...
"But now that faith is come," &c. Moses the lawgiver cannot bring us into the heavenly Canaan though he can bring us to the border of it. At that point he is superseded by Joshua, the type of...
tutors and governors--rather, "guardians (of the person) and stewards (of the property)." Answering to "the law was our schoolmaster" or "tutor" (Ga 3:24). until the time appointed of the father...
(Ge 16:3-16; 21:2). Abraham--whose sons ye wish to be (compare Ro 9:7-9). a bond maid...a free woman--rather, as Greek, "the bond maid...the free woman."
bite--backbite the character. devour--the substance by injuring, extortion, &c. (Hab 1:13; Mt 23:14;2Co 11:20). consumed, &c.--Strength of soul, health of body, character, and resources, are all...
availeth--The oldest manuscripts read, "is" (compare Ga 5:6). Not only are they of no avail, but they are nothing. So far are they from being matter for "glorying," that they are "nothing." But...
So then--The oldest manuscripts read, "Wherefore." This is the conclusion inferred from what precedes. In Ga 3:29 and Ga 4:7, it was established that we, New Testament believers, are "heirs." If,...
Translate as Greek, "They were hearing": tidings were brought them from time to time [Conybeare and Howson]. he which persecuted us in times past--"our former persecutor" [Alford]. The designation...
we--The oldest manuscripts and versions are divided between "we" and "ye." "We" better accords with Ga 4:26, "mother of us." children of promise--not children after the flesh, but through the...
tell...before--namely, before the event. I...told you in time past--when I was with you. you--who, though maintaining justification by the law, are careless about keeping the law (Ro 2:21-23). not...
Solemn asseveration that his statement is true that his visit was but for fifteen days and that he saw no apostle save Peter and James. Probably it had been reported by Judaizers that he had...
Connect these verses together, and read with most of the oldest manuscripts "But" in the beginning of Ga 2:16: "We (I and thou, Peter) by nature (not by proselytism), Jews, and not sinners as...
they which are of faith--as the source and starting-point of their spiritual life. The same phrase is in the Greek of Ro 3:26. the same--these, and these alone, to the exclusion of all the other...
after the flesh--born according to the usual course of nature: in contrast to Isaac, who was born "by virtue of the promise" (so the Greek), as the efficient cause of Sarah's becoming pregnant out...
"If ye are led (give yourselves up to be led) by (Greek) the Spirit, ye are not under the law." For ye are not working the works of the flesh (Ga 5:16, 19-21) which bring one "under the law" (Ro...
temperance--The Greek root implies self-restraint as to one's desires and lusts. against such--not persons, but things, as in Ga 5:21. no law--confirming Ga 5:18, "Not under the law" (1Ti 1:9, 10)....
(2Th 3:13). And when we do good, let us also persevere in it without fainting. in due season--in its own proper season, God's own time (1Ti 6:15). faint not--literally, "be relaxed." Stronger than...
remember the poor--of the Jewish Christians in Judea, then distressed. Paul and Barnabas had already done so (Ac 11:23-30). the same--the very thing. I...was forward--or "zealous" (Ac 24:17; Ro...
they--and they alone. of faith--(See on Ga 3:7, beginning). with--together with. faithful--implying what it is in which they are "blessed together with him," namely, faith, the prominent feature of...
The oldest manuscripts read, "in liberty (so Alford, Moberley, Humphry, and Ellicott. But as there is no Greek for 'in,' as there is in translating in 1Co 16:13; Php 1:27; 4:1, I prefer 'It is FOR...