They; the false teachers professed a great regard for the Galatians, that they might detach them from Paul, and attach them to themselves. This would, as the apostle saw, be at the peril of their salvation, for then the awful words of our Lord would be fulfilled to them: If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Verse 17. _THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU_, BUT _NOT WELL_] It is difficult for common readers to understand the meaning of these words: perhaps it would be better to translate Ζηλουσιν ὑμας ου καλως, the...
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU - See 1 Corinthians 12:31 (Greek); 1 Corinthians 14:39. The word used here (Ζηλόω Zēloō), means to be “zealous” toward, that is, for or against any person or thing; usuall...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
An affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, and begging them not to desert his faith. In the past,...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, because I became as you are. I have no complaints against the way that once you treated me. You know that it was because I was ill that I first preached the go...
ZEALOUSLY AFFECT. Greek. _zelov_, to be zealous, either for good or for bad. WOULD. wish to. App-102., EXCLUDE. Greek. _ekkleiv_, See Romans 3:27. AFFECT. Greek. _zelov_, as above....
In contrast to the simplicity of his own teaching, St Paul exposes the party spirit by which the false teachers were actuated. _They zealously affect you_ The sentence is abrupt, no persons being name...
Personal Appeal The Apostle now makes a personal appeal, marked by deep affection and earnestness. "Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, free yourselves from the trammels of the ceremonial law an...
ἘΚΚΛΕΙ͂ΣΑΙ ὙΜΑ͂Σ אABCD etc. ἐκκλεῖσαι ἡμᾶς The editions of Beza and the Elzevirs, with only a few cursives. 17. ΖΗΛΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΟΥ̓ ΚΑΛΩ͂Σ. In contrast to my plain speaking and apparent enmity, the fa...
12–20. _A further appeal, based on his own behaviour among them, and their treatment of him_ (Galatians 4:12) Become, as I became, free from the Law, like you Gentiles, as you saw me when I was among...
ΖΗΛΟΫ́ΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΛΌΩ (G2206) быть ревностным, посвящать себя чему-л., интересоваться: "они увлекаются" (Lightfoot; _см._ Galatians 1:14). ΚΑΛΏΣ (G2573) хорошо; здесь с отр.: "нечест...
THEY WOULD EXCLUDE YOU.— Some copies and several expositors read _us,_ which certainly appears more natural and easy; and, is there is no doubt but that the Apostle refers here to the endeavours used...
TEXT 4:16-20 (16) So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? (17) They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. (18) But it is good to...
_VERSE 17. THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU, BUT NOT WELL._ Paul takes the false apostles to task for their flattery. Satan's satellites softsoap the people. Paul calls it "by good words and fair speeches t...
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. THEY - your flatterers: in contrast to Paul, who tells them the truth. ZEALOUSLY - zeal in prosely...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
RV 'They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out that ye may seek them.' THEY] the Jewish extremists. NOT WELL] i.e. in a party spirit. EXCLUDE YOU] from the influence of...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
Those ‘other people’ were the false teachers. Their intentions were not good because they were jealous. They did not want the Christians to be loyal to Paul. To ‘separate you’ also means ‘to shut you...
(17-20) All this eagerness to court your favour springs from an interested motive: they wish to make a sect of you, in which they shall be masters and courted in their turn. Not but that it is a good...
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU. — “Zealously affect” is a single word in the Greek, and means “to show zeal towards,” “to court,” “to curry favour with,” “to canvass eagerly, so as to win over to their sid...
CHAPTER 18 PAUL'S ENTREATY. Galatians 4:12 THE reproof of the last paragraph ended in a sigh. To see Christ's freemen relapsing into bondage, and exchanging their Divine birthright for childish toys...
The substantive ζῆλος (probably derived from ζέειν, _burn_) denotes some kind of passionate desire. Whether it was of good or evil tendency depended on the nature of its object and the spirit in which...
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE APOSTLE AT THE CHANGED FEELING OF HIS CONVERTS; REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST; PATHETIC APPEAL TO OLD AFFECTION; PROTEST AGAINST PRESENT ESTRANGEMENT....
TRUTHFUL AND DEVOTED DEALING Galatians 4:12 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to trust in ceremonies, rites, and a prescribed routine! Inevita...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
They zealously affect you, (q) [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, (r) that ye might affect them. (q) For they are jealous over you for their own benefit. (r) That they may transfer all you...
He tells them this change come from the false teachers among them, who with a false zeal would exclude them from a friendship and a submission to St. Paul, and deprive them again of that Christian lib...
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods....
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...
17._They are jealous of you. _He comes at length to the false apostles, and does more by silence to make them odious, than if he had given their names; for we usually abstain from naming those whose v...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU,.... Or "are jealous of you"; meaning the false apostles, whose names, in contempt, he mentions not, being unworthy to be taken notice of, and their names to be transmitted t...
They zealously affect you, _but_ not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. Ver. 17. _They zealously affect you_] _Depereunt vos; _ as jealous woers they would have you whole t...
_They zealously affect you_ The Judaizing teachers who are come among you express an extraordinary regard for you; _but not well_ Their zeal is not according to knowledge, neither have they a single e...
A personal appeal for the truth against the false teachers:...
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU, BUT NOT WELL; YEA, THEY WOULD EXCLUDE YOU THAT YE MIGHT AFFECT THEM....
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
THEY ZEALOUSLY COURT YOU, _BUT_ FOR NO GOOD; YES, THEY WANT TO EXCLUDE YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE ZEALOUS FOR THEM. Zeal is good (to a point). When it has knowledge - Romans 10:3 When you obey the doctri...
YOU: Or, us...
12-18 The apostle desires that they would be of one mind with him respecting the law of Moses, as well as united with him in love. In reproving others, we should take care to convince them that our r...
THEY; the false teachers, that have perverted you as to the faith of the gospel. ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU; pretend a great warmth of affection for you. BUT NOT WELL; but in this they do not well, nor for...
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them....
Galatians 4:17 court G2206 (G5719) you G5209 no G3756 good G2573 yes G235 want G2309 (G5719) exclude...
PAUL NOW REVEALS HIS CONCERN AND LONGING FOR THEM (GALATIANS 4:12). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what they are losing by their foolishness....
‘They seek you zealously, but not in a good way. No, they desire to shut you out that you may look to them. But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am...
Galatians 4:17. Warning against the errorists on account of their selfish exclusiveness and party spirit. THEY COURT YOU, the Judaizers (Galatians 1:7; Galatians 5:10) pay you every attention and are...
2. _Affectionate Appeal to the Galatians._ Paul interrupts his argument for a moment by an affectionate appeal to the feelings of the Galatians. He reminds them of their former enthusiastic love and v...
THEY ZEALOUSLY SEEK YOU (ζηλουσιν υμας). Ζηλοω is an old and a good word from ζηλος (zeal, jealousy), but one can pay court with good motives or evil. So here in contrast with Paul's plain speech t...
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
THOSE OTHER PEOPLE. "The _circumcision party_ claims to love you and to be working for your own good. But their intention is to turn you away from the truth of Christ, and to separate you from me." SO...
_They zealously affect you, but not well._ FALSE ZEAL Paul suggests-- I. That things which are good in their kind may be done for wrong ends. 1. In preaching, (1) some do it for envy and strife;...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:17 The false teachers flatter the Galatians, but only to receive flattery from them in return. TO SHUT YOU OUT. They want to form an exclusive club of people who observe...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:12 As in Galatians 3:1, Paul reminds the Galatians of what happened when they heard the gospel. He also contrasts his own ministry with that of the false teachers.
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:12. BE AS I AM, FOR I AM AS YE ARE.—Paul had become as a Gentile, though he was once a passionate Jew. Their natural leanings towards Judaism they ought t...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
1 Corinthians 11:2; 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 11:13;...
They zealously affect you (zhlousin uJmav). They are zealously paying you court in order to win you over to their side. Affect, in this sense, is obsolete. It is from affectare, to strive after, earne...
TURNING UNTO LAW-WORKS Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvation by law...
They — The judaizing teachers who are come among you. Zealously affect you — Express an extraordinary regard for you. But not well — Their zeal is not according to knowledge; neither have they a singl...
THEY, that is, the false apostles, pretend great love to you, and. zealous affection for you; BUT NOT WELL, not upon honest and just grounds. There is often an ill cause, which is to be condemned and...