Spirit and flesh denote the characteristics of Gospel and Law respectively—the spheres to which they belong: cp. Galatians 6:12. The Galatians had begun by putting their trust in Christ, and living a new life under His abiding influence. To forget this beginning and to aim not at living according to the mind of Christ, but at fulfilling the demands of a law, was to forsake the spiritual for the merely human or carnal.
Verse Galatians 3:3. _HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT_] Having received a spiritual religion, which refined and purified your hearts; and having received the Holy Spirit of God, by which ye were endued wit...
ARE YE SO FOOLISH? - Can it be that you are so unwise? The idea is, that Paul hardly thought it credible that they could have pursued such a course. They had so cordially embraced the gospel when he p...
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...
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...
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...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
BEGUN. Greek. _enarchomai_. Here and Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:6. MADE PERFECT. being perfected. Greek. _epiteleo_. App-125. See 2 Corinthians 7:1. BY. in....
(Second Division of the Epistle.) The Doctrine of Justification by Faith discussed and illustrated...
The contrast is still maintained in other terms. Here the -flesh" is used for that which is external and material, compliance with outward observances, as opposed to the spiritual principle of faith....
_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...
ΟὝΤΩΣ (tam Hebrews 12:21). ἀνόητοι (Galatians 3:1). ἐναρξάμενοι, Philippians 1:6[89]. Frequent in LXX. and Polybius. It is a more formal term than ἄρχομαι, “having made a beginning,” cf. 1M
3–5:12. A CLEAR DOCTRINAL STATEMENT OF SALVATION BY FAITH, WITH RENEWED APPEALS...
ΈΝΑΡΞΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΝΆΡΧΩ (G1728) начинать. Temp. _part._ относится к моменту обращения в христианство (Longenecker). ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΙ _dat. sing. от_ ΠΝΕΎΜΑ (G4151) и ΣΑΡΚΊ _dat. sing....
ARE YE SO FOOLISH, &C.— "Having then set out so happily and hopefully in your Christian course, under the light and influence of the Spirit, with faith in Christ for divine acceptance, according to th...
PART TWO JUSTIFICATION: NOT BY LAW BUT BY FAITH IN CHRIST 3:1-4:31 A. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH PROVED. Galatians 3:1-14 1. By reception of the Holy Spirit Galatians 3:1-5 TEXT 3:1-5 (1) O foolish G...
_VERSE 3. ARE YE SO FOOLISH? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YE NOW MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH?_...
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? BEGUN, [ Enarxamenoi (G1728)] - after having taken the initiatory step in the Christian life (Philippians 1:6),...
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...
The actions of the people in Galatia were not reasonable. They could not start their Christian life in one way and then continue it in a different way. They could not have both the Holy Spirit and the...
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...
III. (1-5) Whence this strange relapse? It is not as if you were ignorant of better things. The crucified Saviour, the one great object of faith, has been preached before you in a way too plain to be...
FOOLISH. — See the Note on Galatians 3:1. HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT. — Begun your career as Christians in a manner so entirely spiritual — with the spiritual act of faith on your part, and with an a...
CHAPTER 11 THE GALATIAN FOLLY. Galatians 3:1. AT the beginning of chap. 3 falls the most marked division of this Epistle. So far, since the exordium, its course has been strictly narrative. The Apos...
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...
πνεύματι … σαρκὶ. These two datives denote the two internal spheres susceptible of moral influence. Conversion had brought about a spiritual change as its immediate result: it was folly to look for a...
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...
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...
(2) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the (d) flesh? (2) The fourth argument mixed with the former, and it is twofold. If the Law is to be joined with faith, th...
(1) В¶ 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? (2) This only would I learn of...
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...
3._Are ye so foolish? _Commentators are not agreed as to what he means by _the Spirit _and by _the flesh_. He alludes, in my opinion, to what he had said about the Spirit. As if he had said, “As the d...
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...
ARE YE SO FOOLISH?.... Is it possible you should be so stupid? and do you, or can you continue so? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT; that is, either in the Spirit of God, whom they had received through the...
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Ver. 3. _Are ye so foolish?_] Those then that have the Spirit may play fools in some particulars. Those that are r...
_This only would I learn of you_ That is, this one argument might convince you; _received ye the Spirit_ In his gifts and graces, in his witness and fruits. See Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:22. _By the...
IN THE SPIRIT; the Holy Spirit, as the minister of a spiritual dispensation. BY THE FLESH; by the observance of the outward ceremonial law....
SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:...
ARE YE SO FOOLISH? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YE NOW MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH?...
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...
Have you lost your marbles? You can not leave the flesh, live in the Spirit of God, and then return to the flesh....
1-5 Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. They had the doctrine of the cross preached, and the Lord's supper administered among them, in both which Christ crucified, and the...
The doctrine of their false teacthers was, that to faith in Christ, an obedience also to the law of Moses was necessary to justification; they did not deny Christ, or the doctrine of the gospel, only...
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Peccatun enim, cure sit "corruptio," non potest babere societatem cure incorruptione," quae est justitia. "Adeo stulti," inquit, "estis? cure spiritu coeperiti...
Galatians 3:3 you G2075 (G5748) so G3779 foolish G453 begun G1728 (G5666) Spirit G4151 you G2005 now...
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...
‘Oh foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth as crucified among you? This only would I learn from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law o...
Galatians 3:3. HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YE NOW ENDING (or FINISHING) IN THE FLESH? A fine irony. The middle voice of the Greek verb (ἐ πιτελε ῑ σθε) is preferable to the passive (‘are ye now br...
ARE YE NOW PERFECTED IN THE FLESH? (νυν σαρκ επιτελεισθε?). Rather middle voice as in 1 Peter 5:9, finishing of yourselves. There is a double contrast, between εναρξαμενο (having begun) and επιτελει...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HOW CAN YOU BE SO FOOLISH! They had begun with a new birth of water and the Spirit (John 3:5) and had been following the spiritual religion of Jesus Christ. To go under The Law means trying to save th...
_Having begun in the Spirit._ I. The commencement of salvation is the holy spirit’s work. Salvation is not begun by-- 1. The means of grace alone. 2. The minister or priest. 3. Self-effort. II. W...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:1. WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU?—Fascinated you, as if overlooked by the evil eye, so that your brain is confused. The Galatians were reputed to possess acute in...
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...
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...
Galatians 4:7; Galatians 5:4; Galatians 6:12; Hebrews 7:16;...
So foolish. Explained by what follows. Has your folly reached such a pitch as to reverse the true order of things? Comp. 1 Corinthians 14:46. Having begun. [ε ν α ρ ξ α μ ε ν ο ι]. P o. Comp. Philippi...
Are ye so thoughtless — As not to consider what you have yourselves experienced? Having begun in the Spirit — Having set out under the light and power of the Spirit by faith, do ye now, when ye ought...
Observe here, the apostle calls the doctrine of the gospel, SPIRIT; because by hearing the gospel preached, they had received both the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit. The law, with all its rites...