Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Galatians 2:17
But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are still found sinners — If we continue in sin, will it therefore follow, that Christ is the minister or countenancer of sin?
But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are still found sinners — If we continue in sin, will it therefore follow, that Christ is the minister or countenancer of sin?
Verse 17. _BUT IF WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED_] If, while we acknowledge that we must be justified by faith in Christ, _we_ _ourselves are found sinners_, enjoining the necessity of observing the r...
BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST - The connection here is not very clear, and the sense of the verse is somewhat obscure. Rosenmuller supposes that this is an objection of a Jew, suppos...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. How Jerusalem had Confirmed the Gospel Paul Preached. (Galatians 2:1)_ 2. Peter's Failure; Paul's Rebuke and Testimony. (Galatians 2:11) Fourteen years passed by before he ever saw Je...
Excitement and consequent confusion rise higher still. In one sense, these verses record a climax; Paul is not merely Peter's equal he had exposed him once when Peter was plainly in the wrong. There i...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
But when I saw that they were straying away from the right path which the gospel lays down, I said to Peter in front of them all, "If you who are a born Jew choose to live like a Gentile and not like...
BY. in. Greek. _en_. App-104. MINISTER. Greek. _diakonos_. App-190. SIN. Greek. _hamartia_. App-128. GOD FORBID. See Luke 20:16; Romans 3:4....
We learn from Acts 15:22, foll. that when the Council broke up, certain members of the Apostolic company were sent to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, to convey to the Churches of Syria and Cilicia the...
Consider what is involved in our having embraced Christianity. We were Jews by birth, and not Gentiles, whom the Jews look down upon as -sinners". We were convinced that man cannot be accounted righte...
_while we seek_ Rather, WHILE SEEKING, i.e. earnestly desiring. The reference is to the time when they embraced the Gospel. Hence, for -are found", read, "were found", found ourselves in the same posi...
The argument of these verses is somewhat obscure an obscurity due, partly to the inadequacy of language to express the intensity of the Apostle's feelings, partly to the introduction of metaphorical e...
ΕἸ ΔῈ. The adversative thought is that in the process of being justified we are found to be sinners. ΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. The effort was real and lasting. ΔΙΚΑΙΩΘΗ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι ΕὙΡΈΘΗΜΕΝ. The tense of εὑρ....
_His argument addressed to St Peter passes over into one addressed to the Galatians_ (vide infra). _The transition was the easier because the temptation to which the Galatians were exposed was identic...
10–2:21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIMSELF 10–12. _My one object is to please God, and to serve Christ, who revealed to me the Gospel_ (Galatians 1:10) I say “now,” for my words show clearly that I care n...
ΖΗΤΟΫ́ΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать. _Praes._ обозначает действие, одновременное действию основного гл. ΔΙΚΑΙΩΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. inf. pass._, _см._ Galatians 2:16. Инфинитив в рол...
IF—WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS,— Those who are under the law, having oncetransgressed, remain always sinners, unalterably so, in the eye of the law; which excludes all such from justification....
TEXT 2:17-19 (17) But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. (18) For if I build up again those things which I d...
_ VERSE 17. BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS, IS THEREFORE CHRIST THE MINISTER OF SIN? GOD FORBID._ The papists quote the words of Christ: "If thou...
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. BUT IF (in your retrogade theory) - seeking to be justifi...
2 Paul's method in Jerusalem seems to have taken into account the low spiritual state and prejudices of the Jewish believers. It would have been practically impossible to impress the whole company wit...
BUT IF, etc.] This is a difficult passage. It seems to state an objection of the Judaising party, that faith in Christ is insufficient to keep men from sin. Or possibly it deals with an argument put f...
HIS AUTHORITY RECOGNISED BY THE APOSTLES AT JERUSALEM AND MAINTAINED IN HIS CONFLICT WITH ST. PETER 1-10. It was not until upon the occasion of a subsequent visit to Jerusalem fourteen years later th...
Christians are free from the laws and traditions of religion. This means that we are free to serve God. But we are not free to do evil things. Jesus Christ never makes people do anything wrong. Paul w...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL MET THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM V1 Then I returned to Jerusalem 14 years later with Barnabas. Titus came with me too. V2 God showed m...
We sought justification in Christ. But if, with all our seeking, something more was needed: viz., a rigid performance of the Law — that Law which we had abandoned — then there was still something want...
(15-21) The section which follows is, in form at least, still a continuation of the rebuke addressed to St. Peter; but the Apostle soon drifts away from this, and begins imperceptibly a comment upon h...
CHAPTER 9 PAUL AND PETER AT ANTIOCH. Galatians 2:11 THE conference at Jerusalem issued in the formal recognition by the Primitive Church of Gentile Christianity, and of Paul's plenary Apostleship. A...
JEWS THEMSELVES WERE DRIVEN TO RESORT TO CHRIST AS SINNERS FOR PARDON BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT OBTAIN JUSTIFICATION BY PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW NOT THAT THEY MIGHT THEREBY BECOME MORE FREE TO SIN, B...
εἰ δὲ … ἁμαρτωλοί. The last verse arrived at the conclusion that Jewish converts by their own act condemned themselves to be guilty of a broken law. The argument now proceeds on this assumption “ _If_...
LIVING BY FAITH IN CHRIST Galatians 2:11 Evidently Peter had gone back from the clear revelation of Acts 10:1, and from his former practice as stated in Galatians 2:12. The fear of the conservative p...
Having dealt with the divine origin of his teaching, the apostle now proceeded to show that his teaching was confirmed by the conference he had with the elders at Jerusalem fourteen years after his co...
(4) But if, while (s) we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. (4) Before he goes any further, he meets with the o...
(16) Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by...
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...
17._If, while we seek to be justified_. He now returns to the Galatians. We must take care not to connect this verse with the preceding one, as if it were a part of the speech addressed to Peter: for...
He then speaks historically of his ministry, and of the question whether man had anything to do with it. His gospel was not according to man, for he had not received it from any man; he had not been t...
BUT IF WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST,.... As they did, and not only sought for, but obtained what they sought for, because they sought for it at the hands of Christ, and not as it were by wo...
_But if while we seek to be justified by Christ_ Through the merit of his obedience unto death, by simply believing in him, and in the truths and promises of his gospel; _we ourselves are still found...
IF, WHILE WE SEEK-ARE FOUND SINNERS; if, in seeking justification and salvation from Christ, not from the works of the law, WE OURSELVES ALSO; we who are Jews by nature as well as the Gentiles, ARE FO...
The lessons drawn from this incident:...
BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS, IS THEREFORE CHRIST THE MINISTER OF SIN? GOD FORBID!...
THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE Not until fourteen years later was there any consultation between Paul and the apostles generally. On this occasion (of which Acts 15:1 gives the history) Paul went with Barna...
Peter or Paul could sin. If Paul allowed the Jews to get away with this, he would be a sinner....
15-19 Paul, having thus shown he was not inferior to any apostle, not to Peter himself, speaks of the great foundation doctrine of the gospel. For what did we believe in Christ? Was it not that we mi...
Some interpreters think, that the apostle here begins his discourse to the Galatians upon the main argument of his Epistle, viz. justification by faith in Christ; though others think it began, GALATIA...
But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. [But if we were forced by Christ's light to confess that we were sinne...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Second For the Lord has sworn by His glory, in regard to His elect, that if any one of them sin after a certain day which has been fixed, he shall not be saved. For the repe...
Galatians 2:17 But G1161 if G1487 seek G2212 (G5723) justified G1344 (G5683) by G1722 Christ G5547 we...
PAUL NOW DEALS WITH OBJECTIONS TO HIS STATEMENT AND STRESSES THAT THE LAW'S PURPOSE IS TO POINT TO CHRIST (GALATIANS 2:17). ‘But, if while we have sought to be justified in Christ, we also were found...
_The Collision of Paul with Peter at Antioch._ Paul continues to prove his independent Apostolic dignity, and shows that he asserted it even in open opposition to Peter at Antioch before the mother co...
_Excursus on justification._ The doctrine of justification by faith is one of the fundamental doctrines of Paul, and is set forth most fully in this Epistle and in that to the Romans. How shall a sinn...
Galatians 2:17. WERE FOUND, discovered, in the eyes of God and men, at the time of our conversion to Christ and our justification by faith in him. SINNERS in the Jewish sense, _i.e.,_ lawless heathe...
Galatians 2:17-19; Galatians 2:17-19 furnish an example of the condensed and nervous dialectics of Paul, similar to Romans 3:3-8. The sense is somewhat obscured by brevity, and has been differently ex...
WE OURSELVES WERE FOUND SINNERS (ευρεθημεν κα αυτο αμαρτωλο). Like the Gentiles, Jews who thought they were not sinners, when brought close to Christ, found that they were. Paul felt like the chief...
WE SEEK That is, "we" Jews. (Romans 3:19). The passage might be thus paraphrased: If we Jews, in seeking to be justified by faith in Christ, take our places as mere sinners, like the Gentiles, is it...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation,-_ He was sent by the church at Antioch, but the church...
Galatians 2:15. We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesu...
Galatians 2:16. _Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ...
CONTENTS: Paul's journey to Jerusalem and His contest for the truth. Justification by faith in Christ without works. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Barnabas, Titus, Peter, James, Cephas, John. CONCLUSION:...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem, and took Titus,_ his fellow-labourer. Luke adds, “and others also.” Acts 15:2. We may gather from this, that Luke was of the co...
IF, THEN. "But if we, in our effort to reach out through faith to seize Christ and be put right with God, must then _let go_ of The Law and put ourselves in the same group with Gentile sinners, does C...
But if, while we seek to be Justified by Christ. I. The blasphemy of making Christ the minister of sin. II. The perfect sufficiency of Christ for the justification of His people. III. The impertine...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser (Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul declares that he had compared his Gospel with Peter, James, and John, and that it had been approved of them so completely that there was nothing to be added...
_But if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves also are found sinners, is, therefore, Christ the minister of sin_? 1. If we are still in sin, and are looking to faith in Christ for forgi...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 2:11. WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE.—The strongest proof of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostl...
EXPOSITION In the preceding chapter, St. Paul has been concerned to make clear the position that neither the gospel which he preached nor the commission which he held was derived from the older apostl...
Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me also (Galatians 2:1). So Paul no doubt had been ministering in Syria and Cilicia, the area around Tarsus,...
1 John 3:5; 1 John 3:8; 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 2:11; Hebrew
Are found [ε υ ρ ε θ η μ ε ν]. More correctly, were found : were discovered and shown to be. See Romans 6:10; 1 Corinthians 14:15; 2 Corinthians 5:3;...
LAW AND GRACE Galatians 2:15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The drift toward Jewish rites and ceremonies. When the early Church came into existence at Pentecost, it was formed from the saved composed of Jews...
These words are generally looked upon as an objection, which the adversaries of the doctrine of justification by faith, have been always ready to make against it, namely, "That if persons be not justi...