Galatians 2:20

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I AM CRUCIFIED - literally, 'I have been crucified with Christ.' This particularizes the "I am dead" (Galatians 2:19; Romans 6:3; Philippians 3:10). NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, [ Zoo (G2198) de (G1161), ouketi (G3765)...

20._I am crucified with Christ_. This explains the manner in which we, who are dead to the law, live to God. Ingrafted into the death of Christ, we derive from it a secret energy, as the twig does from the root. Again, the handwriting of the law, “which was contrary to us, Christ has nailed to his cross.” (Colossians 2:14.) Being then crucified with him, we are freed from all the curse and guilt of the law. He who endeavors to set aside that deliverance makes void the cross of Christ. But let us remember, that we are delivered from the yoke of the law, only by becoming one with Christ, as the twig draws its sap from the root, only by growing into one nature. _Nevertheless I live_. To the feelings of man, the word Death is always unpleasant. Having said that we are “crucified with Christ,” he therefore adds, “that this makes us alive.” Yet not I, but Ch

20,21 Here, in his own person, the apostle describes the spiritual or hidden life of a believer. The old man is crucified, Romans 6:6, but the new man is living; sin is mortified, and grace is quickened. He has the comforts and the triumphs of grace; yet that grace is not from himself, but from another. Believers see themselves living in a state of dependence on Christ. Hence it is, that though he lives in the flesh, yet he does not live after the flesh. Those who have true faith, live by that faith; and faith fastens upon Christ's giving himself for us. He loved me, and gave himself for me. As if the apostle said, The Lord saw me fleeing from him more and more. Such wickedness, error, and ignorance were in my will and understanding, that it was not possible for me to be ransomed by any other means than by such a price. Consider well this price. Here notice the false faith of many. And...

Verse 20. _I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST_] The death of Christ on the cross has showed me that there is no hope of salvation by the law; I am therefore as truly _dead_ to all expectation of justification by the law, as Christ was _dead_ when he gave up the ghost upon the cross. Through him alone _I live_ - enjoy a present life, and have a prospect of future glory. _YET NOT I_] It is not of my _natural life_ I speak, nor of any _spiritual things_ which I myself have procured; _but Christ liveth_ _in me_. God made man to be a _habitation of his own Spirit_: the _law_ cannot _live_ in me so as to give me a _Divine life_; it does not _animate_, but _kill_; but Christ _lives_ in me; he is the _soul_ of my _soul_; so that I now live to God. But this _life_ I have _by the_ _faith of the Son of God_ - by believing on Christ as a sacrifice for sin; for he

I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST - In the previous verse, Paul had said that he was dead. In this verse he states what he meant by it, and shows that he did not wish to be understood as saying that he was inactive, or that he was literally insensible to the appeals made to him by other beings and objects. In respect to one thing he was dead; to all that was truly great and noble he was alive. To understand the remarkable phrase, “I am crucified with Christ,” we may remark: (1) That this was the way in which Christ was put to death. He suffered on a cross, and thus became literally dead. (2) In a sense similar to this, Paul became dead to the Law, to the world, and to sin. The Redeemer by the death of the cross became insensible to all surrounding objects, as the dead always are. He ceased to see, and hear, and was as though they were not. He was laid in the cold grave, and they d

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 apostles- the history of the first years of his ministry showed this. The apostle is now addressing himself to a different subject; he wishes to show that his gospel, though not derived from the older apostles, had, however, while recognized as standing on an independent footing, received the sanction of their approval. This being his object, he had no occasion to refer in any way to visits which he may have made to Jerusalem between the one mentioned in Galatians 1:18 and the one here referred to. The tenor of his argument, therefore, so far, does not of itself determine whether this visit was either the one mentioned in...

I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST,.... Not literally, for so only the two thieves were crucified with him, but mystically; Christ was crucified for him in his room and stead, and so he was crucified with him, and in him, as his head and representative. Christ sustained the persons of all his people, and what he did and suffered was in their name, and on their account, and so they were crucified and suffered with him, as they are said to be buried with him, and to be risen with him, and to sit together in heavenly places in him. Moreover, their old man was crucified with him; when he was crucified, all their sins, the whole body of them, were laid upon him, and he bore them, and bore them away, destroyed and made an end of them; they received their mortal wound by his crucifixion and death, so as never to be able to have any damning power over them; and in consequence of this the affections and...

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 there was guided by revelation, so that Paul is correct in saying, «I went up by revelation,» Galatians 2:2. _And communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:_ There were always some among the J

NOT I See note, (_ See Scofield) - (Ephesians 4:24). _...

GALATIANS 2:20 ui`ou/ tou/ qeou/ {A} Although the reading qeou/ kai. Cristou/ is supported by several important witnesses (î46 B D* G itd, g Marius Victorinus Pelagius), it can scarcely be regarded as original since Paul nowhere else expressly speaks of God as the object of a Christian’s faith. The reading that best explains the origin of the others is the customary Pauline expression tou/ ui`ou/ tou/ qeou/, which is widely attested by a broad spectrum of Greek, versional, and patristic witnesses. It is probable that in copying, the eye of the scribe passed immediately from the first to the second tou/, so that only tou/ qeou/ was written (as in ms. 330)...