George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Galatians 1:9
The terrible sentence awarded by St. Paul, bears equally strong against modern as against ancient innovators in religion.
The terrible sentence awarded by St. Paul, bears equally strong against modern as against ancient innovators in religion.
Verse 9. _LET HIM BE ACCURSED._] Perhaps this is not designed as an _imprecation_, but a simple direction; for the word here may be understood as implying that such a person should, have no countenanc...
AS WE SAID BEFORE - That is, in the previous verse. It is equivalent to saying, “as I have just said;” see 2 Corinthians 7:3. It cannot be supposed that he had said this when he was with them, as it c...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE TESTIMONY OF PAUL CONCERNING HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND THE GOSPEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Galatians 1:1)_ 2. The Rebuke. (Galatians 1:6) 3. Paul's Gospe...
Most of Paul's letters open with thanks to God for the Christianity of the readers. Nothing of that kind is possible here! Quickly not soon after their conversion; that were no wonder; but with indece...
THE TRUMPET CALL OF THE GOSPEL (Galatians 1:1-5)...
I am amazed that you have so quickly deserted him who called you by the grace of Christ, and that you have so soon gone over to a different gospel, a gospel which in point of fact is not another gospe...
BEFORE. i.e. at his second visit (Acts 18:23). SO. and. IF. Greek. _ei._ App-118.2. a. ANY MAN. = any one. App-123. PREACH, &c. Same expression as Galatians 1:8....
He repeats his denunciation with slight differences. (1) He does not mention -an angel from heaven", (2) what in the preceding verse he put hypothetically, "should any … preach", is now assumed to be...
SUBJECT OF THE EPISTLE STATED 6–9. _Surprise at the rapidity with which they were yielding to the false teachers_. (Galatians 1:6) I wonder that you are so quickly (yielding to the temptation and) go...
Repeats the curse, but (_a_) the change from the subjunctive to the indicative suggests that there is a person actually engaged in this erroneous preaching; (_b_) St Paul lays stress on the fact that...
ΠΡΟΕΙΡΉΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΛΈΓΩ (G4302) говорить заранее, предупреждать. _Perf._ указывает на непреходящий авторитет сказанного ранее. Гл. выражает передачу авторитетного христианского учени...
DISCOURSE: 2050 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE Galatians 1:8. _Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached un...
LET HIM BE ACCURSED.— Though we may look upon the repetition of the _anathema_ here to be for the adding of force to what he says; yet we may observe, that by joining himself with an angel in the fore...
Occasion of the Epistle. Galatians 1:6-10 a) Their removal unto a different gospel. Galatians 1:6-7 TEXT 1:6, 7 (6) I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of...
_VERSE 9. AS WE SAID BEFORE, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN. IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED._...
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. SAID BEFORE - when visiting you (so "before" means, 2 Corinthians...
ST. PAUL MAINTAINS THE VALIDITY OF HIS APOSTLESHIP AND THE TRUTH OF HIS GOSPEL 1-5. The Apostle sends greetings from himself and the brethren with him to the Churches of Galatia, reminding them at th...
WE] the epistolary plural, as also in Galatians 1:8 on repetition it becomes the emphatic 'I.' SAID BEFORE] in his personal teaching when with them. NOW AGAIN] emphatic and solemn repetition. 11-17. T...
This probably referred to what Paul said to the Christians in the past. He probably warned them about the false teachers when he first visited Galatia. Paul knew that he was teaching the truth when he...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS THE WRITER Paul wrote this letter. His name used to be Saul. He was called Saul until Acts 13:9, when he was...
(6-10) The Apostle is surprised at their rapid defection. The doctrine to which they had at first given in their adhesion was a doctrine of salvation by grace: they now imagined that they were only he...
AS WE SAID BEFORE. — Probably, upon his last (_i.e.,_ his second) visit, at the beginning of this, his third, great missionary journey (Acts 18:23). The germs of the apostasy in the Galatian Church wo...
CHAPTER 3 THE ANATHEMA. Galatians 1:6 AFTER the Salutation in Paul's Epistles comes the Thanksgiving. ευχαριστω or ευλογητος -these are the words we expect first to meet. Even in writing to Corinth,...
προειρήκαμεν. The contrast between this plural and the singular λέγω proves that Paul is here referring, not to previous warnings of his own by letter, but to joint warnings given by his companions Si...
THE APOSTLE EXPRESSES SURPRISE AT THE SUDDEN DEFECTION OF HIS CONVERTS FROM THE ONLY TRUE GOSPEL, AND PRONOUNCES ANATHEMAS ON ALL PERVERTERS OF THE TRUTH. Paul is evidently startled at the tidings of...
DANGER FROM A PERVERTED GOSPEL Galatians 1:1 Note how strenuously Paul insists upon the genuineness of his call as an Apostle. It had come directly from the lips of Christ. _Neither by man, but by Je...
In the beginning of most of his epistles Paul definitely declares his apostleship. In this instance, in a parenthesis, he defends that declaration more emphatically than in any other introduction. The...
(6) В¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the g...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
9._As we said before_. Leaving out, in this instance, the mention of himself and of angels, he repeats the former assertion, that it is unlawful for any man to teach anything contrary to what they had...
The epistle to the Galatians sets before us the great source of the afflictions and conflicts of the apostle in the regions where he had preached the glad tidings; that which was at the same time the...
AS WE HAVE SAID BEFORE, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN,.... Either when he first preached the Gospel among them; or rather referring to what he had just now said, which he repeats with some little alteration; as...
As we said before, so say I now again, If any _man_ preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Ver. 9. _Than that ye have_] Of the camel it is said, that he wil...
_I marvel that ye are so soon_ After my leaving you; _removed from him that called you into the grace_ Or rather, _by_, or through the grace; _of Christ_ His gracious gospel, and his gracious power. G...
Any plan of salvation except that of free grace, through faith in Christ, is opposed to the gospel, and they who preach it are in danger of an awful condemnation....
PAUL'S REASON FOR WRITING THE EPISTLE. Galatians 1:6...
AS WE SAID BEFORE, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN, IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED....
INTRODUCTION: PAUL'S CREDENTIALS (vs.1-5) Paul writes as an apostle, a sent-one entrusted by God to carry an authoritative message to which Christians must fully bow. "Not from men" (v.1). No human i...
WARNING: NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE DIVINE MESSAGE!...
6-9 Those who would establish any other way to heaven than what the gospel of Christ reveals, will find themselves wretchedly mistaken. The apostle presses upon the Galatians a due sense of their gui...
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As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema. [Here the apostle supposes an impossibility, that he may th...
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‘As we have said before, so now we say again. If any man preaches to you any Gospel other than that which you have received, let him be anathema.' He repeats what he has said in a slightly different w...
HE EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT HOW QUICKLY THEY HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM GOD'S ACTIVE GRACE (GALATIANS 1:6). Paul now expresses his amazement that they have so quickly turned away from this good news o...
Galatians 1:9. BEFORE refers not to Galatians 1:8, which is too near, but to the last visit of Paul to Galatia. PREACH εὐαγγελίζεται implies the actual fact, not the mere possibility, as the hypoth...
_The Apostasy of the Galatians; Anathema on the False Teachers_. In all other Epistles Paul begins in a spirit of Christian courtesy and love, thanksgiving and encouragement, thereby winning the affec...
SO SAY I NOW AGAIN (κα αρτ παλιν λεγω). Paul knows that he has just made what some will consider an extreme statement. But it is a deliberate one and not mere excitement. He will stand by it to the...
Galatians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)_ Paul begins this Epistle by stating his commission as an apostl...
CONTENTS: The Gospel Paul preached, a revelation not tradition. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Peter, James. CONCLUSION: The Gospel declared by the apostles was by revelation of Jesus Christ. It is...
Galatians 1:1. _Paul an apostle, not of men, neither by man._ Paul was not a member of the church of the firstborn, suckled with her breasts, and edified by her ministry. Christ had specially appeared...
WE HAVE SAID IT BEFORE. He points back to warnings which Silas and Timothy, as well as he himself, have given about this in the past. NOW I. Here he repeats what he said in Galatians 1:8. Some say Pau...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 1:1 Opening. Paul offers a greeting (vv. Galatians 1:1). He then addresses the crisis in the Galatian church (vv....
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 1:6 The Galatians are abandoning the true gospel because of the false teachers. SO QUICKLY. It was a short time between Paul’s first preaching to the Galatians and their pr...
SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS The Galatians were Gentiles who emigrated from Gaul into Greece, and so were called Gallo-Greeks. Suidas thinks that these Gauls were Sennon...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 1:6. I MARVEL THAT YE ARE SO SOON REMOVED.—So quickly removed; not so soon after your conversion, or soon after I left you, but so soon after the temptation...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 1:1 _The_ _introductory greeting. _The style of this greeting, compared with those found in St. Paul's other Epistles, gives indications of his having addressed himself to the co...
Galatia was not a city. It was a territory. It encompassed an area that is now in Turkey. There were several churches founded by Paul in Galatia. And following Paul's evangelistic efforts through the...
2 Corinthians 1:17; 2 Corinthians 13:1; 2 Corinthians 13:2; Deuteronomy 12:32;...
As we said before [ω ς π ρ ο ε ι ρ η κ α μ ε ν]. Comp. 2 Corinthians 13:2; Philippians 3:18. Not to be referred to the preceding verse, since the compound verb would be too strong, and now in the foll...
TURNING FROM GRACE Galatians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our study of today carries us into some very vital relationships relative to salvation. We are all willing to grant that works hold a vital place...
As — He speaks upon mature deliberation; after pausing, it seems, between the two verses. We — I and the brethren who are with me. Have said before — Many times, in effect, if not in terms. So I say —...