Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Galatians 3:9
So then all they, and they only, who are of faith — Who truly believe. Are blessed with faithful Abraham — Receive the blessing as he did, namely, by faith.
So then all they, and they only, who are of faith — Who truly believe. Are blessed with faithful Abraham — Receive the blessing as he did, namely, by faith.
Verse 9. _THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH_] All who believe, as Abraham has believed, are made partakers of Abraham's blessings....
SO THEN THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH - They whose leading characteristic it is that they believe. This was the leading trait in the character of Abraham, and this is the leading thing required of those who...
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)...
WITH. Greek. _sun_. App-104. FAITHFUL. the faithful. Greek. _pistos_. App-150....
_faithful_ The original word, like its English equivalent, may mean either trustworthy or trusting, deserving confidence or exercising it. In the former sense it occurs 1Co 1:9; 1 Corinthians 4:2. In...
_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...
ὬΣΤΕ, “so that,” i.e. since Abraham was justified by faith (Galatians 3:6), and those who are of faith are his sons (Galatians 3:7), and the blessings promised to the Gentiles come to them in him (Gal...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно. Это вывод из ранее сказанного, ΕΎΛΟΓΟΥΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΕΎΛΟΓΈΩ (G2127) благословлять....
DISCOURSE: 2060 THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO ABRAHAM Galatians 3:8. _The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee sha...
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 9. SO THEN THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM._ The Jews exhibited a working Abraham. The Pope exhibits a working Christ, or an exemplary Christ. The Pope quotes Christ's...
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. THEY - and they alone. OF FAITH - (note, .) WITH - together with. As "IN" regards Abraham as the spiritual father in whom, so "w...
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...
The conclusion which follows from Galatians 3:2; Galatians 3:5....
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...
The ‘*Scripture’ refers to the part of the Bible that we call the *Old Testament. In Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18, you can read what God promised to Abraham. Abraham lived about 2000 yea...
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...
THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH. — The same phrase as in Galatians 3:7 above. WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM — _i.e.,_ in company with Abraham. The same idea is presented in two different forms. Abraham’s spiritual de...
(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...
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...
οἱ ἐκ πίστεως. See note on Galatians 3:7....
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...
(9) So then they which be of faith are blessed (g) with faithful Abraham. (9) The conclusion of the fifth argument: therefore as Abraham is blessed by faith, so are all his children (that is to say,...
(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...
9._Faithful Abraham_. This expression is very emphatic. They _are blessed_, not with Abraham as circumcised, nor as entitled to boast of the works of the law, nor as a Hebrew, nor as relying on his ow...
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...
SO THEN THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH,.... This is the apostle's conclusion upon the whole, from the instance of Abraham, and, the promise made to him; and is an explanation of the preceding clause, and show...
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Ver. 9. _Are blessed, &c._] For they only are blessed whose sins are remitted, Psalms 32:1. Oh, the blessedness of that man, saith th...
_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...
BLESSED WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM; accepted of God in the same way....
Paul brings Scripture-proof for his position:...
SO, THEN, THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM. The apostle here reminds the Galatian Christians that were inclined to follow the Judaizing teachers of the example of Abraham, the...
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...
They which be of faith, (ALL, Jews & Gentiles) are blessed....
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...
Those that believe in Jesus Christ with such a faith as the gospel doth require, they, and they alone, are blessed with spiritual blessings, justified from the guilt of sin, WITH ABRAHAM; that is, in...
So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. [The word for "Gentiles" and "nations" is the same; so Paul says that the Scripture, foreseeing that the Gentiles would be justifi...
Galatians 3:9 then G5620 of G1537 faith G4102 blessed G2127 (G5743) with G4862 believing G4103 Abraham G11...
‘And the Scripture, foreseeing that by faith God accounts as righteous the Gentiles, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “in you shall all the nations be blessed”. So then those who are...
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 3:9. The emphasis lies on FAITH, as in Galatians 3:7....
WITH (συν). Along with, in fellowship with.THE FAITHFUL (τω πιστω). Rather, "the believing" (cf. verse Galatians 3:6)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SO ALL WHO BELIEVE. We see Abraham had an active faith, not passive, and God blessed him because of his faith! Therefore, all who believe with the active faith that Abraham had, are blessed as he was!...
_Are blessed with faithful Abraham._ ASPECTS OF FAITH I. Faith as a possessor--“of faith.” 1. Men are hardly believers in the fullest sense until they have been mastered and subjugated by their fai...
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...
_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 3:14; Galatians 3:29; Galatians 3:7; Galatians 3:8;...
With [σ υ ν]. Not = like or as, but in fellowship with. Believers are regarded as homogeneous with Abraham, and as thus sharing the blessing which began in him. Faithful [π ι σ τ ω]. Or believing, as...