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Verse Galatians 3:6. _ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD_] This is quoted from
Genesis 15:6, where see the note; and St. Paul produces it, Romans
4:3, where also see the notes. Abraham, while even uncircumcised,
b...
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EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD ... - see this passage fully explained in
the notes at Romans 4:3. The passage is introduced here by the apostle
to show that the most eminent of the patriarchs was not sa...
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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...
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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...
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THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
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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...
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BELIEVED. Greek. pisteud. App-150.
GOD. App-98.
ACCOUNTED. Greek. _logizomai_, See Romans 4:3.
FOR. Greek. _eis_. App-104.
RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikaiosune_, App-191. Quoted from Genesis 15:6....
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Exemplified by the case of Abraham
6. We must supply the obvious answers to the question of Galatians
3:5. Assuredly those miraculous powers followed the preaching of
_faith_; (comp. Mark 16:20) and...
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_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...
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6. This verse serves both as an answer to St Paul’s question in
Galatians 3:5—yes, it was by faith—and also as a transition to the
next important paragraph showing the same truth from Scripture.
Marci...
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_GALATIANS 3:6_.— St. Paul's next argument against circumcision and
subjection to the law is, "That the children of Abraham, intitled to
the inheritance and blessing promised to Abraham and his seed,...
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Justification by faith proved by the case of Abraham. Galatians 3:6-9
TEXT 3:6-9
(6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for
righteousness. (7) Know therefore that they that ar...
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_VERSE 6. EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS._
The Apostle next adduces the example of Abraham and reviews the
testimony of the Scriptures concerning faith. Th...
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Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
The answer to is here taken for granted, It was by the hearing of
faith: following this up, he says, "Even as Abraham be...
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3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves.
Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and
suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the
law...
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3:6 righteousness. (d-13) See Genesis 15:6 ....
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AS ABRAHAM] a typical case, which the Judaisers could not gainsay: cp.
Genesis 15:6. St. Paul declares: Our Jewish sacred Scriptures teach
salvation by faith. Abraham was blessed because he trusted in...
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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...
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CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE
GALATIANS
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 3
LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS
V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic
powers to lead...
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You can read about Abraham in Genesis Chapter s 12 to 25. Abraham
believed and trusted God. Because of that, God accepted Abraham.
Abraham did not try to make himself good by his own efforts. God had...
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EVEN AS. — The argument is here very condensed. Ideas lie close
together in the Apostle’s mind which are some distance apart in
ours. He asks whether, in bestowing the gifts of the Spirit upon the
Chr...
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(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law;
just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness.
Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends...
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CHAPTER 12
ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE.
Galatians 3:6
FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on
which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By this gate th...
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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 OBEDIEN...
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The faith of the Galatians is likened to that of Abraham, in that it
found the same acceptance with God.
The quotation of Genesis 15:6 _was reckoned_ follows the LXX, whereas
our version, following th...
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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...
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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...
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(5) Even as (e) Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
(5) The fifth argument which is of great force, and has three grounds.
The first, that Abraham was justified by fa...
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As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto
justice. See Romans iv. 3. They only who imitate the faith of Abraham
shall be blessed with him, and are his spiritual children,...
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(6) В¶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness. (7) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the
same are the children of Abraham. (8) And the scripture, for...
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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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Having appealed to facts and experience, he now gives quotations from
Scripture. And first, he brings forward the example of Abraham.
Arguments drawn from examples are not always so conclusive, but th...
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What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we,
under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the
Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
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EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD,.... The apostle having observed, that
the special grace and extraordinary gifts of the Spirit were received
not through the preaching of the law, but through the doctrine...
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Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
Ver. 6. _It was accounted to him_] This the Papists jeeringly call a
putative righteousness. The Jews also deride it, and...
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_He therefore_ Namely, God; _that ministereth to you the Spirit_ Who
is continually giving you additional supplies of grace by the Spirit;
_and worketh miracles_, &c. Bestows the extraordinary gifts o...
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Paul brings Scripture-proof for his position:...
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EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS....
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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...
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All who live by faith are the spiritual children of Abraham....
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ACCOUNTED:
Or, imputed...
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6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for
rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of
the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose fa...
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As Abraham was justified, so must all the children of Abraham; but
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, (that is, agreed to the truth of all those
promises which God gave him, and trusted in God for the fulfilling o...
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Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for
righteousness. [Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:21-22]...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
But the Scripture, fore-seeing that God would justify the heathen
through faith, declared to Abraham beforehand, That in thee shall all
nations be blessed. So then th...
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Galatians 3:6 as G2531 Abraham G11 believed G4100 (G5656) God G2316
and G2532 accounted G3049 (G5681) him...
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‘He therefore who supplies to you the Spirit, and works powerful
works among you (or ‘within you'), does he do it by the works of the
Law or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and...
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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...
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Galatians 3:6. The only reply the Galatians could make to the
foregoing question was: ‘By the preaching of faith.' Taxing this for
granted, Paul proceeds (as in Romans 4:1) to give the historical and...
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IT WAS RECKONED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
(ελογισθη εις δικαιοσυνην). First aorist passive
indicative of λογιζομα. See on 1 Corinthians 13:5 for this old
word. He quotes Genesis 15:6 and uses it at...
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GOD
Jehovah. (Genesis 15:6)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ABOUT ABRAHAM. Genesis 15:6. "The Scriptures (Old Testament) prove
that God intended both Jews and Gentiles to be put right with him
through faith, and not through The Law." AND BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH....
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_Even as Abraham believed God._
THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM
I. A simple, child-like dependence on the naked word of God.
II. An acceptance of and trust in God’s promised Saviour.
III. A renouncing of his...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:6 Paul issues a second direct appeal
to the Galatians: it is not just their own experience of receiving the
gospel by faith that should teach them that salvation is not b...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians.
Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false
teachers.
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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...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Galatians 3:6. EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.—Where justification is
there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith the latter
must also.
Galatians 3:8. PRE...
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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...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 5:19; Galatians 3:9; Genesis 15:6; James 2:23; Romans
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Even as [κ α θ ω ς]. The answer to the question of verse 5 is so
obvious that it is not given. Paul proceeds at once to the
illustration - the argument for the righteousness of faith furnished
in the...
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Doubtless in confirmation of that grand doctrine, that we are
justified by faith, even as Abraham was. The Apostle, both in this and
in the epistle to the Romans, makes great use of the instance of
Ab...
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Here our apostle proceeds to. second argument, to prove that persons
are justified by faith, and not by works; and that is drawn from the
example of Abraham: And the argument lies thus: "As Abraham, t...