Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Galatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are removed so soon — After my leaving you. From him who called you by the grace of Christ — His gracious gospel, and his gracious power.
I marvel that ye are removed so soon — After my leaving you. From him who called you by the grace of Christ — His gracious gospel, and his gracious power.
GALATIANS 1:6 @Cristou/# {C} The Committee found it difficult to decide whether transcriptional probabilities or external evidence should be allowed the greater weight in choosing among the five vari...
Verse Galatians 1:6. _I MARVEL THAT YE ARE SO SOON REMOVED_] It was a matter of _wonder_ to the apostle that a people, so soundly converted to God, should have so soon made shipwreck of their faith....
I MARVEL - I wonder. It is remarked by Luther (his commentary at the place) that Paul uses as mild a word as possible here. He does not employ the language of severe reproof, but he expresses his asto...
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...
REMOVED. Read "removing". Greek. _metatithemi_. The Mid. and Pass. with _apo_, mean "to desert". Him. i.e. God. Compare Romans 8:30. 1Th 2:12. 2 Thessalonians 2:14. INTO. Greek. _en_. App-104. CHRIS...
The subject and occasion of the Epistle 6. _I marvel … gospel_ The contrast between the form of address here adopted and that of other letters of St Paul is (as already noted) remarkable. In writing t...
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...
ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ ὍΤΙ. Here only in the Pauline Epistles; Luke 11:38; John 3:7; John 4:27[44]. Cf. Mark 15:44;...
ΘΑΥΜΆΖΩ _praes. ind. act._ (G2296) поражаться, удивляться, изумляться. Это слово обозначает удивление, раздражение и упрек (Longenecker; T.Y. Mullins, "Formulas in New Testament Epistles" JBL 91 [1972...
_GALATIANS 1:6_.— We have before observed, that St. Paul's first endeavour in this epistle was to satisfy the Galatians, that the report spread of him, that he preached circumcision, was false. Till t...
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 6. I MARVEL._ VERSE 6. That ye are so soon. VERSE 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed. VERSE 6. From him that called you into the grace of Christ. VERSE 6. Unto another gospel....
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Without the usual thanksgivings for their faith, etc., he vehemently plunges into his sub...
1:6 change, (b-7) Or, possibly, 'are changed.' gospel, (c-19) Or 'glad tidings,' as elsewhere....
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...
SO SOON] after their conversion; or better, after the Apostle's last visit. HIM THAT CALLED] that is, God. ANOTHER GOSPEL] RV 'a different gospel'; a (pretended) gospel of a different kind (from mine)...
In Paul’s other letters, he prayed for the people after his greeting. He usually thanked God for them. He often praised them too. But Paul did not praise the Christians in Galatia in any way. He start...
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...
UNTO ANOTHER GOSPEL: WHICH IS NOT ANOTHER. — It is to be regretted that the English language hardly admits the fine shade of distinction which exists here in the Greek. The Greek has two words for “an...
REMOVED. — The Greek word is one regularly used for a “deserter,” “turn-coat,” or “apostate,” either in war, politics, or religion. The tense is strictly present: “You are now, at this moment, in the...
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,...
μετατίθεσθε : _ye are removing_ (not _removed_ as in A.V.). The agitators had not yet achieved any decisive success, though the Galatians were disposed to lend too ready an ear to their suggestions. I...
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...
(3) I marvel that ye are so soon (e) removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (3) The first part of the epistle, in which he witnesses that he is an apostle, not...
This was about three or four years after their conversion. The apostle knowing very well how to suit his discourse to his auditors, in this epistle makes use of a more severe and harsh address than is...
(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...
_NO OTHER GOSPEL_ ‘I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would perv...
6._I wonder. _He commences by administering a rebuke, though a somewhat milder one than they deserved; but his greatest severity of language is directed, as we shall see, against the false apostles. H...
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...
I MARVEL THAT YE ARE SO SOON REMOVED,.... The apostle now enters on the subject matter of this epistle, and opens the occasion and design of it, which were to reprove the Galatians for their instabili...
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Ver. 6. _That ye are so soon_] Giddy headed hearers have _religionem ephemeram, _ are whirr...
_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...
HIM THAT CALLED YOU; God, who by Paul called them to embrace the gospel....
I MARVEL THAT YE ARE SO SOON REMOVED FROM HIM THAT CALLED YOU INTO THE GRACE OF CHRIST UNTO ANOTHER GOSPEL;...
PAUL'S REASON FOR WRITING THE EPISTLE. Galatians 1:6...
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...
BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN UNDER THE LAW, For 1,500 years, Israel was in kindergarten, getting ready for Christ to come. FULLNESS OF TI...
Men can depart from truth very quickly. It does not take a long time. A sudden departure is still a shock. How can they go so far away so quickly?...
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...
The apostle here beginneth the matter and substance of his Epistle, with a reprehension of this church; which in, some things is much qualified, in other things much aggravated. His expressing his rep...
I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel [The word translated "marvel" conveys the idea of admiration rather than of wonder. The...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII leading from the beginning of knowledge to the end. But if one should suppose that another origin[165] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics and how t...
Galatians 1:6 marvel G2296 (G5719) that G3754 away G3346 (G5727) so G3779 soon G5030 from G575 called...
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...
‘I marvel that you are so quickly moving from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different Gospel, which is not another. Only there are some who trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of...
Galatians 1:6. I MARVEL. A sharp rebuke in a mild word, which challenges explanation, and intimates that better things were expected from the Galatians. SO QUICKLY, namely, either after your conversi...
_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...
YE ARE SO QUICKLY REMOVING (ουτως ταχεως μετατιθεσθε). The present middle indicative of μετατιθημ, to change places, to transfer. "You are transferring yourselves" and doing it "so quickly" either f...
GRACE The test of the Gospel is grace. If the message excludes grace, or mingles law with grace as the means of either of justification or sanctification, (Galatians 2:21); (Galatians 3:1), or denies...
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...
I AM SURPRISED AT YOU! Both the TEV and NIV bring out the _shocked amazement_ of Paul. The strength of his feeling is shown by his choice of words in Galatians 1:8-9. YOU ARE DESERTING THE ONE. These...
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...
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....
_I marvel that ye are so soon removed_ from Christianity to Judaism, from the liberty of the Gospel to the slavery of legal ceremonies, from the church to the synagogue. "The allusion," says S. Jerome...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:14; 2 Corinthians 11:4;...
I marvel [θ α υ μ α ζ ω]. Often by Greek orators of surprise as something reprehensible. So in New Testament Mark 6:6; John 7:21; Luke 11:38; John 4:27. So soon [ο υ τ ω ς τ α
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...
Observe here, 1. The heavy charge which St. Paul brings in against the false apostles or Judiazing teachers, they perverted the gospel which St. Paul preached, and taught. new gospel of their own; yet...