Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Galatians 3:7
Know then that they who are partakers of his faith, these, and these only, are the sons of Abraham, and therefore heirs of the promises made to him.
Know then that they who are partakers of his faith, these, and these only, are the sons of Abraham, and therefore heirs of the promises made to him.
KNOW YE THEREFORE ... - Learn from this case. It is an inference which follows, that all they who believe are the children of Abraham. THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH - Who believe, and who are justified in...
II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_ 2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
GALATIANS 3:1 TO GALATIANS 5:12. DOCTRINAL SECTION. PAUL SETS THE CHOICE BEFORE THEM CHRIST OR THE LAW AND ARGUES FOR ITS URGENCY. Galatians 3:1. It was a strange folly which could lead them to forget...
O senseless Galatians, who has put the evil eye on you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded upon his Cross? Tell me this one thing--did you receive the Spirit by doing the works the...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
KNOW. Greek. _ginosko_. App-132. OF. Greek. _ek._ App-104. THE SAME. these. CHILDREN. Greek. _huios_. App-108....
_Know ye_ Better indic. -Ye know then". So in Philippians 4:15, where the punctuation in some copies of A.V. perverts the sense. _they which are of faith_ This form of expression is common in Classica...
_Faith makes sons of Abraham and brings the blessing promised in him_ (Galatians 3:7) Ye perceive then that they who draw their spiritual life from faith—these and these only are sons of Abraham. (Gal...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ ἌΡΑ, “ye perceive then.” γιν., almost certainly indicative, for the imperative never occurs in the N.T. with ἄρα, and only once with ἄρα οὖν, 2 Thessalonians 2:15; cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:6.Th...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind._ или _imper. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΆΡ (G686) итак, следовательно. Вводная частица....
Justification by faith proved by the case of Abraham. Galatians 3:6-9 TEXT 3:6-9 (6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (7) Know therefore that they that ar...
_ VERSE 7. KNOW YE THEREFORE THAT THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM._ Some find fault with Paul for applying the term "faith" in Genesis 15:6 to Christ. They think Paul's u...
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. THEY WHICH ARE OF [FROM: ek (G1537 )] FAITH - as the source and starting-point of their spiritual life (cf. Gre...
3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves. Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the law...
JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spirit h...
Sonship to Abraham, therefore (in the spiritual sense), is determined by faith....
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic powers to lead...
All the *Jews come from Abraham’s physical family. The *Jews are proud of this. They often say that Abraham is their ‘father’ (for example John 8:37-39). But Paul said that Abraham’s true family behav...
(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law; just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness. Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends...
The main point of the Apostle’s argument in the present passage is the superiority of faith over the Law. He has, however, also in view the ulterior consequences of that superiority. Unlike the Law, f...
CHAPTER 12 ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE. Galatians 3:6 FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By this gate th...
Γινώσκετε : _Ye perceive_. The emphatic admonition, _Know ye_, adopted in our versions, would require an aorist imperative γνῶτε, as in Hebrews 8:11. This verse contains a deduction from the former, a...
BY FAITH MEN BECOME SONS OF ABRAHAM AND INHERIT HIS BLESSING, WHEREAS THOSE WHO CLAIM IT ON THE SCORE OF OBEDIENCE TO LAW ARE SUBJECT TO THE CURSE OF A BROKEN LAW; FROM WHICH CHRIST REDEEMED US, GENTI...
RIGHTEOUSNESS BASED ON FAITH Galatians 3:1 The strong tendency of the Galatian Christians to depend upon ceremonies or upon legal obedience, _in addition_ to their faith in Christ, elicits in this c...
Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did they...
(6) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (6) The second, that the sons of Abraham must be esteemed and considered as his sons by faith....
(6) В¶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (7) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (8) And the scripture, for...
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...
7._Know ye therefore_, or, _ye know_; for both readings are equally agreeable to the Greek termination γινώσκετε. But it matters little which is preferred, for the meaning is the same, only that the o...
What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we, under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
KNOW YE THEREFORE,.... Or "ye know"; this is a thing known by you, at least may, or should be; it ought not to be contradicted or disputed, it is so plain a case, and so clear a point: THAT THEY WHIC...
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Ver. 7. _The same are children, &c._] And heirs together with him of the world, Romans 4:14, which is theirs in r...
_He therefore_ Namely, God; _that ministereth to you the Spirit_ Who is continually giving you additional supplies of grace by the Spirit; _and worketh miracles_, &c. Bestows the extraordinary gifts o...
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM; like him in spirit, and justified in the same way, not by works, but by faith....
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, THAT THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM....
Paul brings Scripture-proof for his position:...
FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks out...
All who live by faith are the spiritual children of Abraham....
6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose fa...
THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH; those who are believers, and receive Jesus Christ, as exhibited and tendered to them in the gospel, trusting not to any righteousness of their own, arising from their obedienc...
Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. [For by faith Abraham came into such relations with God that he attained righteousness and justification; and I want you to kn...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ,"[121] Tertullian On Monogamy For if" faith" is the source whence we are reckoned to Abraham as his "sons" (as the apostle teaches, saying to the Galatians, "You...
Galatians 3:7 Therefore G686 know G1097 (G5719) (G5720) that G3754 those G3778 of G1537 faith G4102 are...
‘Know therefore that those who are of faith, those are the sons of Abraham.' Thus the true sons of Abraham are those who like him exercise faith in the promises of God and are accounted righteous acco...
PAUL CONFIRMS WHAT HE HAS SAID BY POINTING OUT THAT EVERY BLESSING THEY HAVE RECEIVED WAS RECEIVED THROUGH FAITH (GALATIANS 3:1). Paul now reminds the Galatians of how they first came to Christ, and w...
Galatians 3:7. YE PERCEIVE, THEREFORE. The Greek may be the indicative or the imperative. The former agrees better with the argumentative character of the sentence and with the parti cle ‘therefore' ...
THE SAME ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM (ουτο υιο εισιν Αβρααμ). "These are." This is Paul's astounding doctrine to Jews that the real sons of Abraham are those who believe as he did, "they which be of faith...
Galatians 3:7 Abraham. "God," says the text, "preached the Gospel to Abraham." The very oath sworn to him by his Maker was, according to the Epistle to the Hebrews, designed to show to the heirs of p...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I lea...
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,_ Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries o...
3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?_ These Galatians thought that...
CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law. CHARA...
Galatians 3:1. _Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you:_ εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the trut...
ARE THE REAL DESCENDANTS. "You are no relation to Abraham, unless you have the same kind of faith which he had!" Those who reach out through faith to seize Christ are the ones who are Abraham's descen...
_They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham._ THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM By grace all believers are such. I. By imitation: in that Abraham is set forth as a pattern in the steps of...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:6 Paul issues a second direct appeal to the Galatians: it is not just their own experience of receiving the gospel by faith that should teach them that salvation is not b...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ. I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
_They which are of faith._ A Græcism for they who are faithful, who imitate Abraham's faith. _The same are the children of Abraham._ Not by blood, but by imitation; to them, therefore, belongs the ble...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:6. EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.—Where justification is there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith the latter must also. Galatians 3:8. PRE...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 3:1 O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There...
Galatians 3:26; Hebrews 13:23; John 8:39; Luke 21:31; Psalms 100:3;...
Know ye [γ ι ν ω σ κ ε τ ε]. Imperative. It may also be rendered as indicative, ye know, but the imperative is livelier, and the statement in the verse is one of the points which the writer is trying...