Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Galatians 3:1
CONTENTS
The Apostle is still prosecuting the Subject of Justification solely in Christ. H e sweetly speaks of the Mediator, and the Blessedness at being in Christ.
CONTENTS
The Apostle is still prosecuting the Subject of Justification solely in Christ. H e sweetly speaks of the Mediator, and the Blessedness at being in Christ.
GALATIANS 3:1 evba,skanen The Textus Receptus, following C Dc K L P Y most minuscules vgmss syrh goth eth _al,_ adds th|/ avlhqei,a| mh. pei,qesqai from...
CHAPTER III. _The apostle inquires how they could be so foolish as to_ _renounce the Gospel of Christ and turn back to the law, after_ _having heard, received, and suffered so much for the Gospel_,...
O FOOLISH GALATIANS - That is, foolish for having yielded to the influence of the false teachers, and for having embraced doctrines that tended to subvert the gospel of the Redeemer. The original word...
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)...
FOOLISH = senseless. Greek. _anotetos_. See Romans 1:14. HATH. Omit. BEWITCHED. Greek. _baskaino_. Only here in N.T. In Septuagint of Deuteronomy 28:54; Deuteronomy 28:56. The noun
(Second Division of the Epistle.) The Doctrine of Justification by Faith discussed and illustrated...
Galatians 3:1-9. Justification by Faith, the dispensation of the Spirit 1. In the concluding verses of the preceding chapter the Apostle has not been directly addressing the Galatians. He has rather b...
ἘΒΆΣΚΑΝΕΝ אABD*G syrpesh. τῇ� added in Text. Rec. from Galatians 5:7. ΠΡΟΕΓΡΆΦΗ אABC syrpesh. vulg. (best MSS.). ἐν ὑμῖν added in Text. Rec. 1. Ὦ�, Galatians 3:3. The term is suggested by the logical...
_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...
ΑΝΌΗΤΟΣ (G453) глупый, неразумный. Используется для описания действий, которым недостает мудрости (Eadie). Павел упрекает их не в недостатке ума, а в неспособности или нежелании понять ситуацию (Mater...
DISCOURSE: 2059 DEPARTING FROM THE SIMPLE GOSPEL 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...
O FOOLISH GALATIANS,— By the account that St. Paul has given of himself in the foregoing Chapter s, the Galatians beingfurnished with evidence sufficient to clear him in their minds from the report of...
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 1. O FOOLISH GALATIANS._ VERSE 1. Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? VERSE 1. Who hath bewitched you? VERSE 1. That ye should not obey the truth. VERSE 1. Before wh...
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? FOOLISH, [ anoeetoi (G453)] - 'un...
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...
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...
FOOLISH] thoughtless, undiscerning, inconsistent. BEWITCHED] and so perverted you. BEFORE WHOSE EYES] Paul had vividly (EVIDENTLY, RV 'openly') portrayed the crucified Christ as Saviour....
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...
Paul could hardly believe what the Christians in Galatia had done. He had told them the truth about Jesus Christ. They had understood about Jesus’ death and what it meant. But then they did not contin...
FOOLISH. — The same word as that which is used in Luke 24:25, “O ye fools and slow of heart,” and in Romans 1:14, “wise and foolish,” 1 Timothy 6:9, and Titus 3:3
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...
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...
ἐβάσκανεν. This word denoted either the fascination of an evil eye or some malignant influence akin to it; the infatuation of some Galatians at this crisis is attributed to the baneful effect of some...
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...
O (1) foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, (a) before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (1) The third reason or argum...
_Before whose eyes Jesus Christ....crucified among you. [1] The common exposition is, that St. Paul had before described and set before them Christ crucified. Others, that it had been clearly foretold...
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...
1._O foolish Galatians_. An expostulation is here interwoven — I should rather say, inserted — amidst his doctrinal statements. Some will wonder that he did not delay it to the close of the Epistle, b...
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...
O FOOLISH GALATIANS,.... Referring not to any national character, as some have thought, by which they were distinguished from others for their rudeness in knowledge, their ignorance and folly, as the...
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? Ver. 1. _O foolish Galatians_] Those...
St Paul having, by many arguments, proved himself to be a real apostle, and showed that his knowledge of the gospel was given him by immediate revelation from the Lord Jesus, proceeds in this and the...
BEWITCHED; fascinated, deluded. SET FORTH, CRUCIFIED AMONG YOU; or, set forth among you as crucified. Men who hope to be saved in any other way than through faith in Christ, are grossly deceived. Act...
SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:...
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?...
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...
Paul realizes that they have been hood-winked, tricked. They were not obeying the truths which had been preached to them....
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...
GALATIANS CHAPTER 3 GALATIANS 3:1 Paul asketh what had moved the Galatians to depend on the law, having already received the Spirit through faith. GALATIANS 3:6 As Abraham was justified by faith, so t...
O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? [The Galatians were of well-known intellectual capacity, and their foolishness in not detecting...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics They bear in mind how the churches were rebuked by the apostle: "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? "[292] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation wi...
Galatians 3:1 O G5599 foolish G453 Galatians G1052 Who G5101 bewitched G940 (G5656) you G5209 should G3982 not...
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 3:1. O SENSELESS GALATIANS, to think that righteousness comes through the law, and thus virtually to deny the necessity and efficacy of Christ's death (Galatians 2:21). No reference to natur...
WHO DID BEWITCH YOU? (τις υμας εβασκανεν?). Somebody "fascinated" you. Some aggressive Judaizer (Galatians 5:7), some one man (or woman). First aorist active indicative of βασκαινω, old word kin to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
YOU FOOLISH GALATIANS! "The message that God puts men right with himself through faith is so full of comfort and the proof of it is so plain, that I must ask you foolish Galatians, Who put a spell on...
_O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?_ A FOOLISH CHURCH I. In its origin. II. In its idea of the sustaining energy of the Church. III. In its retrogression. IV. In its estimate of the tru...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
_O foolish Galatians_. " _Each province_," says S. Jerome, " _has its characteristic. Epimenides notes that the Cretans are liars. The Latin historian charges the Moors with frivolity, Me Dalmatians w...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 11:26; 1 Corinthians 2:2;...
Foolish [α ν ο η τ ο ι]. See on Luke 24:25. In N. T. and LXX always in an active sense. See Luke 24:25; Romans 1:14; 1 Timothy 6:9;...
O thoughtless Galatians — He breaks in upon them with a beautiful abruptness. Who hath bewitched you — Thus to contradict both your own reason and experience. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been...
Observe here, 1. The object of the apostle's sharp reprehension, the churches of Galatia. Observe, 2. The ground of their reprehension, their defection from the truth into. very great error, namely,...