Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 1:10
VERSE 10. For do I now persuade men, or God?
VERSE 10. Or do I seek to please men?
VERSE 10. For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
VERSE 10. For do I now persuade men, or God?
VERSE 10. Or do I seek to please men?
VERSE 10. For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Verse 10. _DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD?_] The words πειθειν τον θεον may be rendered _to court or solicit the favour of God_ as the after clause sufficiently proves. This acceptation of πειθειν is...
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD? - The word “now” (ἄρτι arti) is used here, evidently, to express a contrast between his present and his former purpose of life. Before his conversion to Christiani...
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...
DO I, &c.. am. persuading. Greek., _peitho_. App-150. DO. SEEK. am. seeking. PLEASED. were pleasing. SERVANT. Greek. doulos. App-190....
_For do I now … men, or God?_ The particle -for" connects this verse with what precedes. -I speak thus decisively and strongly, for in the first place my motives are pure and cannot be impugned; and s...
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...
ἌΡΤΙ ΓᾺΡ. The ἄρτι is not in contrast to the time before his conversion (see ἔτι infra), nor to the occasion when he circumcised Timothy, but only takes up the ἄρτι of Galatians 1:9, emphasizing that...
ΠΕΊΘΩ _praes. ind. act._ (G3982) убеждать, заслуживать расположение кого-л. (Burton). Конативный _praes._ обозначает попытку (BD, 167; RG, 880). ΖΗΤΏ _praes. ind. act._ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать, ΆΡΈΣΚΕ...
DISCOURSE: 2051 MEN-PLEASERS REPROVED Galatians 1:10. _Do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ_. IN the Churches of Galatia, great efforts were made,...
DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN,— _Do I court the favour of men;_—or, _Do I ingratiate myself with men, rather than with God?_ The words _now_ and _yet_ cannot be understood without a reference to something in...
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...
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. FOR - accounting for his strong language. DO I NOW, [ arti (G737)]...
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...
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...
Paul taught that Christ made people free from the laws and traditions of religion. The false teachers said that Paul was merely trying to please people. But this was a lie. In fact, many people oppose...
You may take this vehemence of language as my answer to another charge that has been brought against me. I am accused of seeking popularity with men. Well, here at least is plainness of speech. If I s...
(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...
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,...
The order of words in the Greek text forbids the stress laid in our versions on the alternative _men or God_; the meaning of which is besides a little obscure in this connection. The true rendering of...
REPUDIATION OF CORRUPT MOTIVES. EVIDENCE FROM PAUL'S PERSONAL HISTORY THAT HIS CONVERSION WAS DUE TO GOD, AND THAT HE WAS TAUGHT THE GOSPEL BY GOD INDEPENDENTLY OF THE TWELVE AND OF JERUSALEM....
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...
(5) For do I now persuade (h) men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. (5) A confirmation taken both from the nature of the doctrine it...
_If I did yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. I should not have embraced the Christian faith, I who was so zealous against it, and who by changing have exposed himself to persecutio...
(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...
Having extolled so confidently his own preaching, he now shows that this was no idle or empty boast. He supports his assertion by two arguments. The first is, that he was not prompted by ambition, or...
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...
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD?.... To "persuade", is to teach; see Acts 18:4 the sense of which, with respect to men, is easy, but, with regard to God, difficult; and indeed cannot be applied to h...
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Ver. 10. _For do I now persuade men_] That is, men's doctrines and devi...
_For_ He here adds the reason why he speaks so confidently; _do I now persuade_, or satisfy, _men_ Is this what I aim at in preaching or writing? _or God?_ Do I endeavour, in my ministry, to ingratiat...
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE; seek to gain the favor of. As much as to say, Wonder not that I speak with such severity; for I seek not man's friendship, but God's....
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN OR GOD? OR DO I SEEK TO PLEASE MEN? FOR IF I YET PLEASE MEN, I SHOULD NOT BE THE SERVANT OF CHRIST. Paul's agitation is evident from the first, in every word which he writes....
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...
What is the preacher's task? Is he to please men or God? Whom should he fear most, men or God? Men-pleasing is wrong. (See Ephesians 6:6; Colossians 3:22)...
10-14 In preaching the gospel, the apostle sought to bring persons to the obedience, not of men, but of God. But Paul would not attempt to alter the doctrine of Christ, either to gain their favour, o...
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD? There is an emphasis in the particle _now, _ since I became a Christian, and was made an apostle; while I was a Pharisee I did otherwise, but since I became an apost...
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ. [Paul's enemies accused him of being a time-serving...
Tertullian On Idolatry tests me! The cursing of well-maintained Discipline is a blessing of the Name. "If," says he, "I wished to please men, I should not be Christ's servant."[103] Cyprian Epistle...
Galatians 1:10 For G1063 I G3982 now G737 persuade G3982 (G5719) men G444 or G2228 God G2316 Or...
‘For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still pleasing men I would not be the servant of Christ.' So he asks them. Do they think that by what he says he is trying...
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...
Galatians 1:10. accounts for, and thus softens, the apparently excessive severity of the preceding condemnation. The service of the gospel is absolutely irreconcilable with the selfish service of men....
_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...
AM I PERSUADING? (πειθω?). Conative present, trying to persuade like ζητω αρεσκειν (seeking to please) where the effort is stated plainly. See 2 Corinthians 5:11.I SHOULD NOT BE (ουκ αν ημην). Con...
FOR NOW DO The demonstration is as follows: (1) The Galatians know Paul, that he is no seeker after popularity. (Galatians 1:10). (2) He puts his known character back of the assertion that his Gosp...
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...
DOES THIS SOUND? "I have been accused of saying whatever anyone wants to hear. Does this sound like it??? God will be my judge! If I were trying to be popular with men, I would never have become the s...
_For do I now persuade men, or God?_ or do I seek to please men? I. That the governing principle and motive of the religious life, is a practical concern not for the favour of man, but for that of go...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 1:10 Indirect Appeal: Paul’s Ministry and the Gospel. Paul received the gospel directly from Jesus Christ (see Acts 9:1;...
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...
_Do I now persuade men, or God?_ Theophylact, Vatablus, and Erasmus explain this to mean: " _Am I now persuading you to human things or to Divine_?" as though the Apostle were showing, not the persons...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 1:11. NOT AFTER MAN.—Not according to man; not influenced by mere human considerations, as it would be if it were of human origin. Galatians 1:12. BUT BY TH...
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 10:33; 1 John 3:9; 1 Samuel 21:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:4;...
For do I now persuade [α ρ τ ι γ α ρ - π ε ι θ ω]. For introduces a justification of the severe language just used. The emphasis is on now, which answers to now in verse 9. I have been charged with co...
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...
For — He adds the reason why he speaks so confidently. Do I now satisfy men — Is this what I aim at in preaching or writing? If I still — Since I was an apostle. Pleased men — Studied to please them;...
Our apostle in these words discovers the great sincerity used in preaching the pure and unmixed doctrine of the gospel to the Galatians; for he did not persuade that men, but God, should be heard and...