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Galatians 5:11
and I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the Cross ceased.
and I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the Cross ceased.
Verse 11. _IF I YET PREACH CIRCUMCISION_] it is very likely that some of the false apostles, hearing of Paul's having circumcised Timothy, Acts 16:3, which must have been done _about this time_, repo...
AND I, BRETHREN - Paul here proceeds to vindicate himself from giving countenance to the doctrines which they had advanced there. It is evident that the false teachers in Galatia appealed to Paul hims...
III. THE WALK OF THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER, AS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Stand fast! Be not entangled! (Galatians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations and the law of love. (Galatians 5:7) 3....
Final emphatic statement of the dilemma, Christ or circumcision. Paul, speaking with all authority in spite of false inferences drawn from his circumcising Timothy (Galatians 5:11) and in spite of pro...
AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING (Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1) 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands writte...
Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. Again I give my word to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is under...
IF Greek. _ei_. App-118. PREACH. Greek. _kerusso_. App-121. DO I, &c.. am. still persecuted. OFFENCE. Greek. _skandalon_. See 1 Corinthians 1:23. CEASED. Greek. _katargeo_. See Galatians 5:4....
Another abrupt transition of thought, rendering the connexion obscure and uncertain. It is however evident either that a charge of inconsistency had been brought against St Paul, or that the possibili...
_Another, but sharper, appeal and warning. The observance of the Law is inconsistent with faith in Christ _...
_Against continuing in retrogression; with sharp words against the leader and the false teachers generally_ (Galatians 5:7) You were running your race nobly; who hindered you, so that (to drop all met...
ἘΛῺ ΔῈ. Primarily in contrast to the change, probably made and certainly taught, by the false leader. I, in contrast to him, and also to what is said of me by him and others like him, am different fro...
ΔΙΏΚΟΜΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) охотиться, гнать, преследовать, ара (G686) затем; "и вот оказывается!". Это слово вводит ложное утверждение или иронический вывод (Lightfoot). ΚΑΤΉΡΓΗΤΑΙ...
DISCOURSE: 2081 OFFENCE OF THE CROSS Galatians 5:11. _Then is the offence of the cross ceased_. THE Gospel, in the first ages, was an object of hatred and persecution both amongst Jews and Gentiles:...
PERSECUTION?— The _persecution_ which St. Paul was still under, was a convincing argument that he was not for circumcision and subjection to the law; for it was from the Jews, upon that account, that...
TEXT 5:10-12 (10) I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. (11) But I, brethren, if I stil...
_VERSE 11. AND I, BRETHREN, IF I YET PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY DO I YET SUFFER PERSECUTION? THEN IS THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS CEASED._ In his great desire to recall the Galatians, Paul draws himself int...
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. 'If I am still preaching (as I did before conversion) circumcision, why am I...
1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...
THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation. P...
THEN IS THE OFFENCE OF THE CROSS CEASED] RV 'then has the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.' The Judaisers who had 'troubled' the Galatians had evidently brought against the Apostle the cha...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE V1 We have freedom because Christ has made us free. Be certain that you remain free. You must not allow yourselv...
Paul taught that Jesus Christ forgives people’s *sins. Jesus died on a wooden cross. God punished him instead of us. Because of that, *Gentiles do not need to obey all the *Jewish laws (Acts 15:1-21)....
(11)AND I, BRETHREN. — Rather, _But I, brethren._ Another abrupt transition. We should naturally infer from this passage that St. Paul had at one time seemed to preach, or at least to _permit,_ circum...
(7-12) All was going well at first. What sudden intruder has stopped your path and led you astray? Certainly it is not God, to whom you owe your calling, that has persuaded you to such a course. You t...
CHAPTER 21 THE HINDERERS AND TROUBLERS. Galatians 5:7 THE Apostle's controversy with the Legalists is all but concluded. He has pronounced on the question of circumcision. He has shown his readers,...
It seems strange in view of Paul's later career that he should have needed to repudiate, however briefly and scornfully, the charge of still preaching circumcision as he had before his conversion. Aft...
to Galatians 5:12. Freedom is our birthright in Christ and an essential condition of our call. Accordingly the Apostle protests against the claim that all Christians should be circumcised, as a depart...
HOLD FAST YOUR FREEDOM Galatians 5:1 We are free. The Son has made us free, and we are free indeed, though not free to disobey the dictates and promptings of our new nature. We are set free from minu...
The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumcis...
(10) And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. (10) He wishes them to consider that he seeks not his own profit in this...
(6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This...
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...
11._And I, brethren_. This argument, is drawn from the final cause. “It would be completely in my power,” he says, “to avoid the displeasure of men, and every kind of danger and persecution, were I on...
It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. If they took that gr...
AND I, BRETHREN, IF I YET PREACH CIRCUMCISION,.... The apostle was traduced by the false teachers, as a preacher of circumcision himself in some places; and this they did partly to show him to be a va...
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. Ver. 11. _Why do I yet suffer persecution_] From the Jews zealous of the law....
_And I, brethren_ If, as my enemies insinuate; _I yet preach circumcision_ As necessary to salvation, and urge it upon the believing Gentiles; _why do I yet suffer persecution_ From the Jews, as one a...
IF I YET PREACH; that circumcision is needful to salvation, as the false teachers maintained. THEN; if he had so preached he would have agreed with the Jews, and escaped their persecutions....
LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from the...
AND I, BRETHREN, IF I STILL PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY DO I STILL SUFFER PERSECUTION? THEN THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS HAS CEASED. Why suffer persecution? To preach error? Preaching circumcision means th...
7-12 The life of a Christian is a race, wherein he must run, and hold on, if he would obtain the prize. It is not enough that we profess Christianity, but we must run well, by living up to that profe...
It should seem by what the apostle saith in this verse, that some of these false teachers had quoted the apostle for them, as if he himself had preached circumcision; possibly taking advantage from hi...
But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away. [It is evident that in this verse Paul defends himself against th...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews of the passion itself should be figuratively set forth in predictions; and the more incredible (that mystery), the more likely to be "a stumbling-stone,"[199]...
Galatians 5:11 And G1161 I G1473 brethren G80 if G1487 I G2784 still G2089 preach G2784 (G5719) circumcision...
PAUL IS PUZZLED BY THEIR FAILURE AND ANGRY AT THOSE WHO HAVE LED THEM ASTRAY (GALATIANS 5:7). Paul now again expresses his deep puzzlement at their behaviour. He just cannot understand how they can b...
‘But as for me brothers, if I still preach circumcision why am I still persecuted? Then the stumblingblock of the cross has been done away.' Some may have pointed at cases like Timothy's where he had...
Galatians 5:11. IF I STILL PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY AM I STILL PERSECUTED? THEN HATH THE OFFENCE (or STUMBLING BLOCK) OF THE CROSS BEEN DONE AWAY. The first ‘still' refers to the time since his conver...
_Exhortation to Steadfastness in Christian Freedom_, _and Warning against Legal Bondage._ Here begins the practical part of the Epistle, consisting of exhortations and warnings appropriate to the occ...
WHY AM I STILL PERSECUTED? (τ ετ διωκομαι?). Some of the Judaizers even circulated the slander that Paul preached circumcision in order to ruin his influence....
Galatians 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ had made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Chris...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage._ «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subje...
CONTENTS: Liberty of the believer in Christ, apart from the law. Conflict of flesh and the Spirit. Christian character the result of the Spirit's work not self-effort. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,_ by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your cele...
BUT AS FOR ME. "My enemies tell you that I still preach circumcision, and perhaps point to Timothy as an example. But if that were true, why would they continue to persecute me??? If I did preach that...
_And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution?_ then is the offence of the Cross ceased. THE PERVERSION OF APOSTOLIC PREACHING There are two attempts or resolves i...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 5:1 Those who turn to the law for salvation cut themselves off from salvation. ⇐ ⇔
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 5:11 If Paul still preached that people had to be circumcised, then THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS would be REMOVED. Jesus’ work on the cross reminds people that their efforts to...
CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ's righteousness, since in Him neit...
_And I, brethren, if I yet preach._ This is a reply to the calumny of the Judaisers, that Paul Judaised among the Jews, and opposed Judaism among the Gentiles. He asks, if this be so, why the Jews sho...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 5:9. A LITTLE LEAVEN.—Of false doctrine, a small amount of evil influence. Galatians 5:10. HE THAT TROUBLETH YOU.—The leaven traced to personal agency; whoe...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 5:1 GALATIANS 5:2 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); _lo_,_ I Paul say unto you. _The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Paul's writings on...
Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Je...
1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:30; 1 Peter 2:8;...
And i. In sharp contrast with the disturber. If I yet preach circumcision [ε ι π ε ρ ι τ ο μ η ν ε τ ι κ η ρ υ σ σ ω]. Commonly explained as an allusion to a charge circulated by the Judaisers that Pa...
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative to the Sp...
But if I still preach circumcision — As that troubler seems to have affirmed, probably taking occasion from his having circumcised Timothy. Why do I still suffer persecution? then is the offence of th...
Our apostle, in these words, signifies to us, that some of the judaizing teachers had suggested to the Galatians, as if he himself had preached elsewhere the doctrine of circumcision, and also practis...