‘But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any Gospel other than that which you received, let him be anathema.'

Did they not remember that they had received the Gospel with powerful evidence of the working of the Spirit (Galatians 3:2)? Thus anyone, whether man or supernatural being, who sought to turn them from what they had received to anything else, was worthy only to be ‘cursed' (anathema), that is, devoted to the judgment of God. The words stress the strong feeling that Paul has about the matter. It is not his own teaching that they are deserting, he warns them, it is the work of the Spirit of God. And it is so important that he repeats his powerful words again.

An ‘anathema' was something that was declared against the worst of sinners, those who had ‘sinned with a high hand'. And these men were guilty of the greatest sin of all, taking men's eyes off Christ, God's beloved Son.

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