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Verse 17. _BUT IF WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED_] If, while we
acknowledge that we must be justified by faith in Christ, _we_
_ourselves are found sinners_, enjoining the necessity of observing
the r...
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BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST - The connection here
is not very clear, and the sense of the verse is somewhat obscure.
Rosenmuller supposes that this is an objection of a Jew, suppos...
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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...
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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...
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But when I saw that they were straying away from the right path which
the gospel lays down, I said to Peter in front of them all, "If you
who are a born Jew choose to live like a Gentile and not like...
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THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
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BY. in. Greek. _en_. App-104.
MINISTER. Greek. _diakonos_. App-190.
SIN. Greek. _hamartia_. App-128.
GOD FORBID. See Luke 20:16; Romans 3:4....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_while we seek_ Rather, WHILE SEEKING, i.e. earnestly desiring. The
reference is to the time when they embraced the Gospel. Hence, for
-are found", read, "were found", found ourselves in the same posi...
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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...
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_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...
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ΕἸ ΔῈ. The adversative thought is that in the process of being
justified we are found to be sinners.
ΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. The effort was real and lasting.
ΔΙΚΑΙΩΘΗ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι ΕὙΡΈΘΗΜΕΝ.
The tense of εὑρ....
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IF—WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS,— Those who are under the
law, having oncetransgressed, remain always sinners, unalterably so,
in the eye of the law; which excludes all such from justification....
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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...
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_ VERSE 17. BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE
OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS, IS THEREFORE CHRIST THE MINISTER OF
SIN? GOD FORBID._
The papists quote the words of Christ: "If thou...
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But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also
are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid.
BUT IF (in your retrogade theory) - seeking to be justifi...
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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...
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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...
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BUT IF, etc.] This is a difficult passage. It seems to state an
objection of the Judaising party, that faith in Christ is insufficient
to keep men from sin. Or possibly it deals with an argument put f...
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CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE
GALATIANS
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 2
PAUL MET THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM
V1 Then I returned to Jerusalem 14 years later with Barnabas. Titus
came with me too. V2 God showed m...
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Christians are free from the laws and traditions of religion. This
means that we are free to serve God. But we are not free to do evil
things. Jesus Christ never makes people do anything wrong. Paul w...
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We sought justification in Christ. But if, with all our seeking,
something more was needed: viz., a rigid performance of the Law —
that Law which we had abandoned — then there was still something
want...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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εἰ δὲ … ἁμαρτωλοί. The last verse arrived at the
conclusion that Jewish converts by their own act condemned themselves
to be guilty of a broken law. The argument now proceeds on this
assumption “ _If_...
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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...
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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...
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(4) But if, while (s) we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid.
(4) Before he goes any further, he meets with the o...
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(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...
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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...
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17._If, while we seek to be justified_. He now returns to the
Galatians. We must take care not to connect this verse with the
preceding one, as if it were a part of the speech addressed to Peter:
for...
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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...
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BUT IF WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST,.... As they did, and
not only sought for, but obtained what they sought for, because they
sought for it at the hands of Christ, and not as it were by wo...
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_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...
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IF, WHILE WE SEEK-ARE FOUND SINNERS; if, in seeking justification and
salvation from Christ, not from the works of the law, WE OURSELVES
ALSO; we who are Jews by nature as well as the Gentiles, ARE FO...
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The lessons drawn from this incident:...
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BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE
FOUND SINNERS, IS THEREFORE CHRIST THE MINISTER OF SIN? GOD FORBID!...
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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...
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Peter or Paul could sin.
If Paul allowed the Jews to get away with this, he would be a sinner....
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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...
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Some interpreters think, that the apostle here begins his discourse to
the Galatians upon the main argument of his Epistle, viz.
justification by faith in Christ; though others think it began,
GALATIA...
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But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also
were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. [But if
we were forced by Christ's light to confess that we were sinne...
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Shepherd of Hermas Vision Second
For the Lord has sworn by His glory, in regard to His elect, that if
any one of them sin after a certain day which has been fixed, he shall
not be saved. For the repe...
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Galatians 2:17 But G1161 if G1487 seek G2212 (G5723) justified G1344
(G5683) by G1722 Christ G5547 we...
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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...
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_Excursus on justification._
The doctrine of justification by faith is one of the fundamental
doctrines of Paul, and is set forth most fully in this Epistle and in
that to the Romans. How shall a sinn...
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_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...
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Galatians 2:17. WERE FOUND, discovered, in the eyes of God and men, at
the time of our conversion to Christ and our justification by faith in
him.
SINNERS in the Jewish sense, _i.e.,_ lawless heathe...
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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...
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WE OURSELVES WERE FOUND SINNERS
(ευρεθημεν κα αυτο αμαρτωλο). Like the
Gentiles, Jews who thought they were not sinners, when brought close
to Christ, found that they were. Paul felt like the chief...
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WE SEEK
That is, "we" Jews. (Romans 3:19). The passage might be thus
paraphrased: If we Jews, in seeking to be justified by faith in
Christ, take our places as mere sinners, like the Gentiles, is it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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IF, THEN. "But if we, in our effort to reach out through faith to
seize Christ and be put right with God, must then _let go_ of The Law
and put ourselves in the same group with Gentile sinners, does C...
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But if, while we seek to be Justified by Christ.
I. The blasphemy of making Christ the minister of sin.
II. The perfect sufficiency of Christ for the justification of His
people.
III. The impertine...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser
(Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
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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...
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_But if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves also are
found sinners, is, therefore, Christ the minister of sin_? 1. If we
are still in sin, and are looking to faith in Christ for forgi...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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1 John 3:5; 1 John 3:8; 2 Corinthians 3:7; Galatians 2:11; Hebrew
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Are found [ε υ ρ ε θ η μ ε ν]. More correctly, were found :
were discovered and shown to be. See Romans 6:10; 1 Corinthians 14:15;
2 Corinthians 5:3;...
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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...
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But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are still
found sinners — If we continue in sin, will it therefore follow,
that Christ is the minister or countenancer of sin?...
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These words are generally looked upon as an objection, which the
adversaries of the doctrine of justification by faith, have been
always ready to make against it, namely, "That if persons be not
justi...