“ Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? ”
Am I therefore become your enemy ... - Is my telling you the truth in regard to the tendency of the doctrines which you have embraced, and the character of those who have led you astray, and your...
An affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way ( cf. 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, and begging them not to desert his faith. In the pas...
because , &c.. dealing truly with. Greek. aletheuv , Here and Ephesians 4:15 . Compare App-175.
16. Am I therefore become your enemy? He now returns to speak about himself. It was entirely their own fault, he says, that they had changed their minds. Though it is a common remark, that t...
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Am I therefore become your enemy - How is it that you are so much altered towards me, that you now treat me as an enemy, who formerly l...
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Translate, 'So then am I become (in your eyes) your enemy by telling you the truth?' ( Galatians 2:5 ; Galatians 2:14 .) He had...
The Bondage of the Law. Freedom in Christ 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. Paraphrase. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no m...
(12-16) Let me beg of you: cast off the bondage of Judaism as I have done, just as I gave p its privileges to place myself on a level with you. I have no complaint to make against you. You remember t...
Chapter 18 PAUL'S ENTREATY. Galatians 4:12-20 THE reproof of the last paragraph ended in a sigh. To see Christ's freemen relapsing into bondage, and exchanging their Divine birthright for chil...
Truthful and Devoted Dealing Galatians 4:12-20 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to trust in ceremonies, rites, and a prescribed routine...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured j...
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods....
Am I therefore become your enemy ,.... Not that he was an enemy to them, he had the same cordial affection for them as ever; he had their true interest at heart, and was diligently pursuing it; but...
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Ver. 16. Am I therefore become, &c. ] Truth breeds hatred, as the fair nymphs did the ugly fauns a and satyrs. The hearing of...
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of On which ye so congratulated one another? Since ye once thought yourselves so happy in my presence with, and my preaching among you, how happens it that yo...
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as cont...
Affectionate Remonstrance. A. D. 56. 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as...
What hath now altered your mind, or made you have a worse opinion of me? Wherein have I offended you or done you any harm? I have done nothing but revealed to you the truth of God; am I therefore bec...
Paul Now Reveals His Concern and Longing for Them ( Galatians 4:12-20 ). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what they are losing by their foolishness.
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 4:12 . Be as I am, for I am as ye are. —Paul had become as a Gentile, though he was once a passionate Jew. Their natural leanings towards Judaism they ou...
Galatians 4:16 The Right Mode of Giving and Receiving Reproof. I. Men will profess, and perhaps unthinkingly believe, that they derive the most essential benefits derivable from a true friend; bu...
Galatians 4:1-5 . Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the f...
Galatians 4:1 . The heir, as long as he is a child, and a minor, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his f...
EXPOSITION Galatians 4:1 Now I say (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said...
A personal appeal for the truth against the false teachers:
1 Kings 18:17 ; 1 Kings 18:18 ; 1 Kings 21:20 ; 1 Kings 22:27 ; 1 Kings 22:8 ; 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 ; 2 Chronicles 25:16 ; Galatians 2:14 ; Galatians 2:5 ; Galatians 3:1-4 ; Galatians 5:7...
Turning unto Law-Works Galatians 4:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvatio...