Paul started to speak about himself in verses 18-21. He would have been wrong if he had tried to obey the *Jewish laws and traditions again. However, Paul was probably referring to the way that Peter and the *Jewish Christians had behaved in Antioch. They were starting to obey the *Jewish laws again. Instead, they should trust Christ.
Verse 18. _FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED_] If I act like a Jew, and enjoin the observance of the law on the Gentiles, which I have repeatedly asserted and proved to be _abolished_...
FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED - Paul here uses the first person; but he evidently intends it as a general proposition, and means that if anyone does it he becomes a transgressor. T...
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...
If I build up again these very things that I destroyed, I simply succeed in making myself a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Chr...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
MAKE. prove. TRANSGRESSOR. Greek. _parabates_. App-128. There is an ellipsis here. Read "to have been. transgressor", i.e. in destroying....
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...
The edifice which St Paul had pulled down was not, as some suppose, the Levitical law of meats, or the Mosaic ceremonial law, in themselves considered. It was not, as a rule of life, but _as a ground...
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...
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...
_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...
ΕἸ ΓᾺΡ. γάρ, to be taken closely with μὴ γένοιτο Romans 9:14-15; Romans 11:1. It is not sinful to abandon the Law in seeking justification, and thus to find oneself on the same level as a sinful Genti...
ΚΑΤΈΛΥΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΎΩ (G2647) срывать, разрушать, аннулировать, упразднять. Возможно, форма первого лица используется для большей живости выражения (GGBB, 391). ΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΏ _praes. ind. a...
I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR.— Many commentators consider this verse as a continuation of St. Paul's speech at Antioch, and would render and connect it thus: "On the contrary, so far are we from being...
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 18. FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR._...
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Greek, 'For if what things I overthrow (by the faith of Christ), these things I build again (namely, legal righteous...
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...
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...
(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...
But Christ is not a minister of sin. The thought is not to be tolerated. For, on the contrary, the sin is seen, not in leaving the Law for Christ, but in going back from Christ to the Law. The sin is...
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...
“If, indeed, I do reestablish the authority of the Law over Christian life, it becomes true that Christ did lead me to transgression.” So argues the Apostle as he turns to his own life for an illustra...
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...
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...
(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...
18._For if I build again_. The reply consists of two parts. This is the first part, and informs us that the supposition now made is at variance with his whole doctrine, since he had preached the faith...
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...
FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED,.... Which must be understood not of good things, for formerly he destroyed the faith of the Gospel, at least as much as in him lay, and now he built...
_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...
THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED; the system of Jewish ceremonies, which, upon believing in Christ, I had destroyed, that is, given up as worthless. I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR; in going back from faith...
FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR....
The lessons drawn from this incident:...
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...
By THE THINGS WHICH he DESTROYED, some understand the state of sin; and from hence conclude the mutability of a state of justification: but there is no need of that, it may as well be understood of a...
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Justly, therefore, did he refuse to "build up again (the structure of the law) which he had overthrown."[107] Tertullian On Modesty judge who is not wont "to rebui...
Galatians 2:18 For G1063 if G1487 build G3618 (G5719) again G3825 things G5023 which G3739 destroyed G2647 ...
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...
Galatians 2:18. The sin is the other way, in going back from Christ to Moses, from the gospel of freedom to the law of bondage. Paul speaks with delicate consideration in the first person, but really...
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...
A TRANSGRESSOR (παραβατην). Peter, by his shifts had contradicted himself helplessly as Paul shows by this condition. When he lived like a Gentile, he tore down the ceremonial law. When he lived li...
TRANSGRESSOR SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
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...
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 I START. "You, by again making The Law an obligation, are proving that what you were doing while you lived as the Gentiles do, was in fact a violation of The Law. That is, during the time you negle...
_For if I build again the things which I destroyed._ I. Teachers are great offenders when good doctrine is joined to bad conversation. Good doctrine destroys the kingdom of darkness, bad doctrine bui...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:18 I would PROVE MYSELF TO BE A TRANSGRESSOR. Ironically, the one who is most clearly seen to be a sinner is not the one outside of the law (the Gentile), but the one who...
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...
_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 Corinthians 8:11; 1 Corinthians 8:12; Galatians 2:12; Galatians 2:21;...
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...
By no means. For if I build again — By my sinful practice. The things which I destroyed — By my preaching, I only make myself — Or show myself, not Christ, to be a transgressor; the whole blame lies o...