By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified; Paul and Peter, though Jews, believed this. Why then should Peter act as if it were necessary for the Gentiles to observe the ceremonial law? This was inconsistent, and adapted to make an erroneous impression on others.
Verse 16. _KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED_] See the notes on Romans 1:17; Romans 3:24; Romans 3:27; Romans 8:3. And see on...
KNOWING - We who are Jews by nature, or by birth. This cannot mean that all the Jews knew this, or that he who was a Jew knew it as a matter of course, for many Jews were ignorant of it, and many oppo...
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...
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...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
KNOWING. Greek. _oida_. App-132. JUSTIFIED. Greek. _dikaioo_ App-191. BY. Greek. _ek_. App-104. THE. Omit. BUT BY. except (Greek. _ean me)_ BY (Greek. _dia_ App-104). FAITH. Greek. _pistis_. App...
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...
The force of the prepositions is obscured by the rendering of A. V. Literally, -Knowing that man is not justified from (i.e. as the result of) works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ … eve...
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...
ΔῈ is omitted by the Text. Rec. with ADc. 16. ΕἸΔΌΤΕΣ. The acquired knowledge (γνόντες, Galatians 4:9) has become so intimate a part of his elementary knowledge that St Paul can write εἰδότες (Galati...
ΕΊΔΌΤΕΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΟΊΔΑ (G1492) def. perf. со _знач. praes._ знать. _Praes._ указывает на вечную истину. _Pass._ указывает на то, что человек не оправдывается сам, но провозглашается правед...
DISCOURSE: 2056 PETER REPROVED BY PAUL Galatians 2:14. When I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest a...
b. Paul's Reproof Galatians 2:14-21 TEXT 2:14-16 (14) But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, if thou, being a Jew, li...
_VERSE 16. KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST._ The demands of the Law may be fulfilled before and after justification. There were many excel...
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Connect these verses, and read, with most of the oldest manuscripts, "But," Galatians 2:16: 'We (I and thou, Peter) by birth (not by pros...
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...
2:16 [nor] (a-16) The Greek has the sense of 'but,' with an exclusive force, which I have endeavoured to render by 'nor' in brackets. see Romans 7:7 ; Romans 14:14 ; 1 Corinthians 7:17 ;...
EVEN WE] i.e. with all our Jewish privileges we are no better than the Gentiles we despise, but must equally with them seek salvation by faith in Christ. 17-21. St. Paul seems here quite imperceptibl...
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...
God gave his laws to the *Jews. You can read them in Exodus Chapter s 20 to 24 and in the Book of Leviticus. The *Gentiles did not have these laws, so they could not obey them. So the *Gentiles did no...
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...
IS NOT JUSTIFIED. — Here the Apostle introduces, for the first time in the Epistle, the word which plays so prominent a part in the Epistle to the Romans — “pronounced just or righteous” — free from g...
(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...
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...
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...
οὐ δικαιοῦται … Two methods of seeking justification in the sight of God are here distinguished. The former took account of nothing but stedfast obedience to the law of God. Before his conversion Paul...
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...
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith (q) of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by...
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law. St. Paul, to the end of the chapter, seems to continue his discourse to St. Peter, but chiefly to the Jewish Galatians, to shew that both t...
(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...
16._But by the faith of Jesus Christ_. He does not merely state that ceremonies, or works of any kind, are insufficient without the assistance of faith, but meets their denial by a statement admitting...
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...
KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW,.... That is, Peter, Paul, Barnabas, and other believing Jews knew this, and that from the law itself, which requires perfect and sinless ob...
_We_ St. Paul, to spare St. Peter, drops the first person singular, and speaks in the plural number; Galatians 2:18, he speaks in the first person singular again by a figure, and without a figure, Gal...
The lessons drawn from this incident:...
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 THE...
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...
Contrast - "Works of the law" and "the faith." Law = Moses"Faith" is the system of faith No one is saved by obeying the law of Moses. This verse does not teach that we do not have to obey the will o...
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...
KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED; we knowing that a man is not absolved from the guilt of sin, and declared righteous in the sight of God; BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW; by any kind of works done in obed...
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But what do the Marcionites wish to have believed (on the point)? For the rest, the apostle must (be permitted to) go on with his own statement, wherein he says that...
Galatians 2:16 knowing G1492 (G5761) that G3754 man G444 is G1344 not G3756 justified G1344 (G5743) by...
‘Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but only through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus in order that we might be justified by faith in Christ and no...
PAUL'S ARGUMENT WITH PETER WHEN PETER WAS INCONSISTENT (GALATIANS 2:11). The previous argument had a permanent importance for the church because it has laid down once for all what is basic to salvatio...
_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 2:16. YET KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY WORKS OF LAW (law-works, _Gesetzeswerke),_ BUT ONLY THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO BECAME BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS. Here t...
_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...
IS NOT JUSTIFIED (ου δικαιουτα). Present passive indicative of δικαιοω, an old causative verb from δικαιος, righteous (from δικε, right), to make righteous, to declare righteous. It is made like αξι...
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...
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...
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...
YET WE KNOW. "We know by the Old Testament Scriptures, as well as by the Spirit God gave us, that it is not obedience to the Law of Moses, but FAITH in Jesus Christ that puts us right with God!!!" WE,...
_Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law._ CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION I. Justification is properly a word applicable to courts of justice, but is used in a similar sense...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser (Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:16 “Justified” means “counted righteous” or “declared righteous” by God (see esv footnote). If people obeyed all of God’s perfect moral standards, they could be justified...
_A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ._ The English _but_ here exactly interprets the work that the Latin translates by _nisi._ There is an antithesis betwe...
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 6:11; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 Peter 1:18;...
Justified [δ ι κ α ι ο υ τ α ι]. See on Romans 3:20; Romans 3:26. The meaning to declare or pronounce righteous cannot be consistently carried through Paul's writings in the interest of a theological...
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...
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law — Not even of the moral, much less the ceremonial, law. But by the faith of Jesus Christ — That is, by faith in him. The name Jesus was firs...