“ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounteda to him for righteousness. ”
Even as Abraham believed God ... - see this passage fully explained in the notes at Romans 4:3 . The passage is introduced here by the apostle to show that the most eminent of the patriarchs was...
(5) Even as (e) Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (5) The fifth argument which is of great force, and has three grounds. The first, that Abraham was justified by f...
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 3:1-14 . It was a strange folly which could lead t...
believed . Greek. pisteud. App-150. God. App-98. accounted . Greek. logizomai , See Romans 4:3 . for . Greek. eis . App-104. righteousness. Greek. dikaiosune , App-191. Quoted from Ge...
Having appealed to facts and experience, he now gives quotations from Scripture. And first, he brings forward the example of Abraham. Arguments drawn from examples are not always so conclusive,...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Abraham believed God - This is quoted from Genesis 15:6 (note); and St. Paul produces it, Romans 4:3-5 (note). Abraham...
Galatians 3:6 .— St. Paul's next argument against circumcision and subjection to the law is, "That the children of Abraham, intitled to the inheritance and blessing promised to Abraham and his s...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. The answer to Galatians 3:5 is here taken for granted, It was by the hearing of faith: following this up, he says...
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 Spiri...
Even as. — The argument is here very condensed. Ideas lie close together in the Apostle’s mind which are some distance apart in ours. He asks whether, in bestowing the gifts of the Spirit upon the...
Chapter 12 ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE. Galatians 3:6-14 FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By thi...
Righteousness Based on Faith Galatians 3:1-10 The strong tendency of the Galatian Christians to depend upon ceremonies or upon legal obedience, in addition to their faith in Christ, elicits i...
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 the...
(6) В¶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (7) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (8) And the scripture, fo...
Even as Abraham believed God ,.... The apostle having observed, that the special grace and extraordinary gifts of the Spirit were received not through the preaching of the law, but through the doctr...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Ver. 6. It was accounted to him ] This the Papists jeeringly call a putative righteousness. The Jews also deride it, a...
He therefore Namely, God; that ministereth to you the Spirit Who is continually giving you additional supplies of grace by the Spirit; and worketh miracles , &c. Bestows the extraordinary gi...
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...
Justification by Faith. A. D. 56. 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to hi...
As Abraham was justified, so must all the children of Abraham; but Abraham believed God, (that is, agreed to the truth of all those promises which God gave him, and trusted in God for the fulfillin...
Paul Confirms What He Has Said By Pointing Out That Every Blessing They Have Received Was Received Through Faith ( Galatians 3:1-9 ). Paul now reminds the Galatians of how they first came to Chris...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 3:6 . Even as Abraham believed God. —Where justification is there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith the latter must also. Galatians 3...
God Jehovah. ( Genesis 15:6 ).
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...
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 t...
Even as Abraham believed God. The faith of Abraham I. A simple, child-like dependence on the naked word of God. II. An acceptance of and trust in God’s promised Saviour. III. A renouncing...
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...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21 ; Galatians 3:9 ; Genesis 15:6 ; James 2:23 ; Romans 4:10 ; Romans 4:11 ; Romans 4:21 ; Romans 4:22 ; Romans 4:24 ; Romans 4:3-6 ; Romans 4:6 ; Romans 4:9 ; Romans...
Doubtless in confirmation of that grand doctrine, that we are justified by faith, even as Abraham was. The Apostle, both in this and in the epistle to the Romans, makes great use of the instance of...