Galatians 4:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 you are now so alienated from me? For if it had been possible If it had been a thing allowable, and I could have received any benefit by it; ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me As a convincing proof of your affection for me. Am I become your enemy Or have you any reason to account me such; because I tell you the truth? And bear a faithful testimony to the uncorrupted gospel, which I desire to maintain among you in all the purity in which I planted it? “The apostle's address, in thus putting the Galatians in mind of their former affection and gratitude to him, as their spiritual father, and his contrasting it in this verse with their present temper of mind, is admirable.”

Galatians 4:15-16

15 Wherec is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?