Galatians 4:16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Translate, 'So then am I become (in your eyes) your enemy by telling you the truth?' (; .) He had not been counted their enemy at his first visit: he implies that he had since then, before his now writing; so that the occasion of his telling them the unwelcome truth must have been at his second visit (: see 'Introduction'). The Judaizers designated him 'that enemy' (Clement, 'Recogn.' 1: 70, 71). The fool and sinner hate, the righteous love, faithful reproof (; ).