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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_...
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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...
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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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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...
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THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
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MAKE. prove.
TRANSGRESSOR. Greek. _parabates_. App-128. There is an ellipsis here.
Read "to have been. transgressor", i.e. in destroying....
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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...
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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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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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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 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...
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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...
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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 18. FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE
MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR._...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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“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...
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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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(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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A
TRANSGRESSOR....
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The lessons drawn from this incident:...
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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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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...
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For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself
a transgressor...
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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...
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Galatians 2:18 For G1063 if G1487 build G3618 (G5719) again G3825
things G5023 which G3739 destroyed G2647 ...
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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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_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 2:17-19; 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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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...
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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...
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TRANSGRESSOR
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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 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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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_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 Corinthians 8:11; 1 Corinthians 8:12; Galatians 2:12; Galatians
2:21;...
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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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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...