Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Galatians 2:19
Dead] ethically; broke relations with the Law system as by a death. That I might live] I died to the old life and relations in order to live to the new.
Dead] ethically; broke relations with the Law system as by a death. That I might live] I died to the old life and relations in order to live to the new.
Verse 19. _FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW_] In consequence of properly considering the _nature_ and _requisitions_ of the law, _I am dead_ to all hope and expectation of help or salvation f...
FOR I THROUGH THE LAW - On this passage the commentators are by no means agreed. It is agreed that in the phrase “am dead to the law,” the Law of Moses is referred to, and that the meaning is, that Pa...
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...
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...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
THROUGH. Greek. _dia_. App-104. AM DEAD. died....
For it was through the law, through the conviction of its inability to give life, that I became dead to the law. The law demanded a perfect obedience, as a condition of justification. This none can re...
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 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...
_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...
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...
ἘΓῺ ΓᾺΡ. ἐγώ not I in contrast to St Peter (Winer-Schmiedel, see note on κατέλυσα Galatians 2:18), but I in my own experience, γάρ gives the reason for his statement that it was sinful to go back to t...
ΈΓΏ (G1473) я. Смысл фразы: "я, Павел, по природе человек, раб ветхого завета" (Lightfoot). ΓΆΡ (G1063) ибо. Это пояснение показывает, как эта реабилитация закона в итоге приводит к преступлению прот...
DISCOURSE: 2057 TRUE USE OF THE LAW Galatians 2:19. _I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God_. THE knowledge of the law is indispensably necessary to the knowledge of the Gos...
THROUGH THE LAW— _By the tenor of the law itself._ See ch. Galatians 3:24 Galatians 4:21, &c. Romans 3:21; Romans 11:14 comp. with
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...
_ VERSE 19. FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD._ This cheering form of speech is frequently met with in the Scriptures, particularly in the writings of St. Paul, when...
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. Here Paul seems to pass from his exact words to Peter, to the general purport of his argument. However, his direct address to t...
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...
2:19 may (b-11) See Note to 'might bring,' ver. 4....
Paul explained what happened to him when he became a Christian. He used dramatic language. It was as if he died because of the *Jewish law. Paul could never obey all the laws. He could never behave pe...
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...
(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...
In the last verse the Apostle had been putting a supposed case, but by a not unnatural process of thought he gradually takes the “I” rather more in earnest, and appeals directly to his own personal ex...
CHAPTER 10 THE PRINCIPLES AT STAKE. Galatians 2:19 PAUL'S personal apology is ended. He has proved his Apostolic independence, and made good his declaration, "My Gospel is not according to man." If...
Ἐγὼ. The stress laid on the personal pronoun shows that Paul is here referring to the facts of his personal history. He singles out his own conversion for the sake of the crucial example which it affo...
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...
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...
For I through the law am dead to the (t) law, that I might live unto God. (t) The Law that terrifies the conscience brings us to Christ, and he alone causes us to indeed die to the Law, because by mak...
He here expresses the change which had been wrought in him. The law to which he had been attached, had passed away from him. Now he was so united to Christ and his cross, that he says: Not I, but Chri...
(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...
19._For I through the law_. Now follows the direct reply, that we must not ascribe to Christ that work which properly belongs to the law. It was not necessary that Christ should destroy the righteousn...
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...
FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW,.... The apostle further replies to the objection against the doctrine of justification, being a licentious one, from the end of his, and other believers, bein...
_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...
FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW; instead of thus going back to the law for justification, I have learned through the law itself to renounce the law as the means of my salvation. A true knowle...
The lessons drawn from this incident:...
FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD....
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...
See Romans 7:4-6; Colossians 2:20. PAUL TEACHES THAT HE: 1.Was crucified with Christ 2.Is alive 3.Is not the old Paul 4.Christ lives in him 5.Is still in the flesh 6.Lives by faith in Jesus...
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...
THROUGH THE LAW of Christ, as some say; or rather, through the law of Moses, of which he had been before speaking: that is, say some, through the death of the law; the law itself being dead, as a cove...
For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quare tune quidem in came vivebam camaliter: "quod autem nunc vivo in carne, in fide vivo Filii Dei."[216] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V so that none coul...
Galatians 2:19 For G1063 I G1473 through G1223 law G3551 died G599 (G5627) law G3551 that G2443 live...
‘For I through the Law died to the Law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. Yet I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life which I now live in the fles...
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...
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...
_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 2:19. FOR I THROUGH LAW DIED TO LAW (a dative of disadvantage) THAT I MIGHT LIVE TO GOD (dative of advantage). The same idea is expressed in Romans 7:4-6; Colossians 2:20. Paul gives here, i...
I THROUGH THE LAW DIED TO THE LAW (εγω δια νομου νομω απεθανον). Paradoxical, but true. See Romans 7:4; Romans 7:6 for picture of how the law waked Paul up to his real death to the law through Chri...
Galatians 2:19 I. St. Paul was dead to the law in two ways. First, he no longer sought in it the motive power which should enable him to bring forth fruit to God. It had itself cured him of this delus...
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...
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 2:1. _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...
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...
HOWEVER, I AM DEAD. "I and all the other believers DIED with Christ, killed by The Law itself, since its CURSE killed Christ. Now that the Law considers me dead, I am free to live for God!" Compare _R...
_For I through the law am dead to the law._ DEATH AND LIFE I. Those who are justified are qualified for the highest service--“living to God.” II. Living to god is dying to sin. 1. The aim of cruci...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:19 THROUGH THE LAW. The law taught Paul that he could not be saved by works. Paul has DIED TO THE LAW. He no longer tries to gain justification by obeying the law....
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser (Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
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 10:31; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 4:1; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Peter 4
For [γ α ρ]. Justifying the previous thought that the reerection of the law as a standard of Christian life and a means of justification is a condemnation of the faith which relies on Christ alone for...
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...
For I through the law — Applied by the Spirit to my heart, and deeply convincing me of my utter sinfulness and helplessness. Am dead to the law — To all hope of justification from it. That I may live...
Here the apostle shews, that believers are so far from being justified by the law, that they are dead to the law, so as to put no confidence in their obedience to it for justification; particularly, 1...