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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Galatians 3 In this chapter the apostle reproves the Galatians for their disobedience to the Gospel, and departure from it; confirms the doctrine of justification by faith, by various arguments; shows the use of the law, and the abrogation of it, and makes mention of several privileges which belong to believers in Christ. He begins...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O foolish Galatians,.... Referring not to any national character, as some have thought, by which they were distinguished from others for their rudeness in knowledge, their ignorance and folly, as the Cretians for their lying, c. nor to their former state in unregeneracy, it being common to all men, to God's elect themselves, before conversion, to...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. II. He proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for departing from—that of justification by faith without the works of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. Paul does not compliment them on being a very “thoughtful,” “educated” “cultured” people; he does not care an atom about that matter, but because they had forsaken the simple truth of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, — Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries out to them “Who hath bewitched you,” — Gal_3:1. That ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? “When the Spirit of God came upon you, and renewed you, — when he endued some...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This one thing would I learn of you,.... Though there were many things he could have put to them, yet he would only ask this one question, which, if rightly attended to, and honestly answered, must expose their folly, and put an end to the controversy upon this head: received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? This...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? They had gone off into legality; they were trying to be saved by ceremonies, and by works of their own. “Well,” asks Paul, “how did you receive the Spirit,-the Spirit by which miracles were wrought among you, the Spirit by which you spoke...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? “You profess to have received the Spirit; did the Spirit come to you by the works of the law, or through hearing and believing the gospel?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? “You know that the Spirit of God is necessary to salvation. You have received that; did you get the Spirit through the works of the law, or by simply hearing the gospel, and believing it?” The answer comes at once if we have received the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Are ye so foolish?.... Is it possible you should be so stupid? and do you, or can you continue so? having begun in the Spirit; that is, either in the Spirit of God, whom they had received through the preaching of the Gospel. They set out in a profession of religion in the light, under the influence, and by the assistance of the Spirit; they began...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? If the very beginning of your religion was spiritual, a work of the Spirit received by faith, are you now going to be perfected by the flesh, by outward rites and ceremonies, or by efforts of your own?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? “Did you begin right, and are you going to finish in some other way? Is the foundation laid in truth, and will you build falsehood upon it? Is the foundation Jesus Christ, the chief corner store, and is the superstructure to be wood, hay, and stubble?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? “Is this work to be partly God’s and partly your own? And if he has begun it with a basis of gold, are you to perfect it with your poor dust and clay? Are you so foolish as to attempt to do this?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Surely, the way in which the Christian life begins is the method in which it is to be sustained. “As ye have received Christ Jesus, the Lord,” the apostle says in another place, “so walk ye in him.” If you have begun in the flesh, go on in the flesh, but if you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have ye suffered so many things in vain?.... These Galatians had suffered great reproach, many afflictions and persecutions for the sake of the Gospel, as all that embrace it must expect to do; and which to them that persevere in the faith of the Gospel will not be in vain, they will be followed with eternal life and glory; not that these things...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. You had to struggle and endure much contention within your own spirit to get upon the ground of faith at all; are you going to throw all that away? Is all the experience of your past life to go for nothing, and are you now going to begin on a lower and baser platform?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. “Have you been made to suffer through conviction of sin? Have you even been persecuted for the truth’s sake? And are you going to give it up after all that?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? They knew very well that the miracles came as the result of faith, and were an attestation and seal of the gospel of faith, and not of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. This is another pertinent question.