Where 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.
Where ... - Where now is to be found your former felicitation х tis (G5100) - ho (G3588) makarismos (G3108)] of yourselves, on your having among you the blessing of my ministry, considering how entirely you have veered about since? ['Aleph (') A B C G g, Vulgate, read pou (G4226), where; Delta, tis (G5100), 'of what value?']
Ye would have plucked out your own eyes - the dearest member of the body; so highly did you value me: proverbial for the greatest self-sacrifice (Matthew 5:29). Conybeare thinks this particular proverb has reference to a weakness in Paul's eyes, connected with a nervous frame, affected by the bright vision (Acts 22:11; 2 Corinthians 12:1-7). 'You would have torn out your own, eyes to supply the lack of mine.' But there is no 'own' in the Greek. The divine power of Paul's words and works contrasting with his personal feebleness (2 Corinthians 10:10), powerfully at first impressed the Galatians, who had all the impulsiveness of the Keltic race. Subsequently they soon changed, with Keltic fickleness.