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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Galatians 3:1-6

WHAT SENSELESS FOLLY IS IT FOR YOU, WHO HAD THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST SET PLAINLY BEFORE YOUR EYES, TO RESORT NOW TO CIRCUMCISION! THINK ONLY HOW IT WAS THAT YOU RECEIVED THE SPIRIT: WAS IT BY OBEDIENCE TO LAW OR BY LISTENING IN FAITH? CAN YOU COMPLETE A SPIRITUAL WORK BY AN ORDINANCE OF THE FLESH? DID YOU SUFFER ALL THAT PERSECUTION FOR NOTHING? WAS IT YOUR OBEDIENCE TO LAW OR YOUR LISTENING IN FAITH THAT LED TO GOD'S IMPARTING TO YOU THE SPIRIT WITH POWER, EVEN AS THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM WAS RECKONED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS?

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOOLISH = senseless. Greek. _anotetos_. See Romans 1:14. HATH. Omit. BEWITCHED. Greek. _baskaino_. Only here in N.T. In Septuagint of Deuteronomy 28:54; Deuteronomy 28:56. The noun

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    (Second Division of the Epistle.) The Doctrine of Justification by Faith discussed and illustrated...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    _Your very reason, and your own experience, should tell you the all-importance of faith_ (Galatians 3:1) Unreasoning Galatians! who hath “overlooked” you? when you had a full counter charm—Jesus Chri...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

    _ VERSE 1. O FOOLISH GALATIANS._ VERSE 1. Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? VERSE 1. Who hath bewitched you? VERSE 1. That ye should not obey the truth. VERSE 1. Before wh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOOLISH] thoughtless, undiscerning, inconsistent. BEWITCHED] and so perverted you. BEFORE WHOSE EYES] Paul had vividly (EVIDENTLY, RV 'openly') portrayed the crucified Christ as Saviour....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Paul could hardly believe what the Christians in Galatia had done. He had told them the truth about Jesus Christ. They had understood about Jesus’ death and what it meant. But then they did not contin...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    III. (1-5) Whence this strange relapse? It is not as if you were ignorant of better things. The crucified Saviour, the one great object of faith, has been preached before you in a way too plain to be...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOOLISH. — The same word as that which is used in Luke 24:25, “O ye fools and slow of heart,” and in Romans 1:14, “wise and foolish,” 1 Timothy 6:9, and Titus 3:3

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 11 THE GALATIAN FOLLY. Galatians 3:1. AT the beginning of chap. 3 falls the most marked division of this Epistle. So far, since the exordium, its course has been strictly narrative. The Apos...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Before whose eyes Jesus Christ....crucified among you. [1] The common exposition is, that St. Paul had before described and set before them Christ crucified. Others, that it had been clearly foretold...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._O foolish Galatians_. An expostulation is here interwoven — I should rather say, inserted — amidst his doctrinal statements. Some will wonder that he did not delay it to the close of the Epistle, b...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    St Paul having, by many arguments, proved himself to be a real apostle, and showed that his knowledge of the gospel was given him by immediate revelation from the Lord Jesus, proceeds in this and the...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    BEWITCHED; fascinated, deluded. SET FORTH, CRUCIFIED AMONG YOU; or, set forth among you as crucified. Men who hope to be saved in any other way than through faith in Christ, are grossly deceived. Act...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    Paul realizes that they have been hood-winked, tricked. They were not obeying the truths which had been preached to them....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. They had the doctrine of the cross preached, and the Lord's supper administered among them, in both which Christ crucified, and the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GALATIANS CHAPTER 3 GALATIANS 3:1 Paul asketh what had moved the Galatians to depend on the law, having already received the Spirit through faith. GALATIANS 3:6 As Abraham was justified by faith, so t...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? [The Galatians were of well-known intellectual capacity, and their foolishness in not detecting...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics They bear in mind how the churches were rebuked by the apostle: "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? "[292] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation wi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Galatians 3:1 O G5599 foolish G453 Galatians G1052 Who G5101 bewitched G940 (G5656) you G5209 should G3982 not...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Oh foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth as crucified among you? This only would I learn from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law o...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Galatians 3:1. O SENSELESS GALATIANS, to think that righteousness comes through the law, and thus virtually to deny the necessity and efficacy of Christ's death (Galatians 2:21). No reference to natur...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHO DID BEWITCH YOU? (τις υμας εβασκανεν?). Somebody "fascinated" you. Some aggressive Judaizer (Galatians 5:7), some one man (or woman). First aorist active indicative of βασκαινω, old word kin to...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    YOU FOOLISH GALATIANS! "The message that God puts men right with himself through faith is so full of comfort and the proof of it is so plain, that I must ask you foolish Galatians, Who put a spell on...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?_ A FOOLISH CHURCH I. In its origin. II. In its idea of the sustaining energy of the Church. III. In its retrogression. IV. In its estimate of the tru...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _O foolish Galatians_. " _Each province_," says S. Jerome, " _has its characteristic. Epimenides notes that the Cretans are liars. The Latin historian charges the Moors with frivolity, Me Dalmatians w...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:1. WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU?—Fascinated you, as if overlooked by the evil eye, so that your brain is confused. The Galatians were reputed to possess acute in...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 11:26; 1 Corinthians 2:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Foolish [α ν ο η τ ο ι]. See on Luke 24:25. In N. T. and LXX always in an active sense. See Luke 24:25; Romans 1:14; 1 Timothy 6:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    O thoughtless Galatians — He breaks in upon them with a beautiful abruptness. Who hath bewitched you — Thus to contradict both your own reason and experience. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. The object of the apostle's sharp reprehension, the churches of Galatia. Observe, 2. The ground of their reprehension, their defection from the truth into. very great error, namely,...

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