25–6:6. _Life by the spirit brings unselfish care for others, e.g. for one’s teachers_ (Galatians 5:25) Life by the spirit leads to a life in right relation to others. (Galatians 5:26) We must all beware of conceit, self-assertion, envy. (Galatians 6:1) For example, my brethren; take even the case o... [ Continue Reading ]
13–6:10. PRACTICAL. LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE BUT SERVICE; NOT THE FLESH BUT THE SPIRIT MUST BE THE AIM OF THE BELIEVER... [ Continue Reading ]
1. A specific example in which there would be the more need to exercise the unity demanded in the preceding verse Galatians 5:26. ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ, Galatians 1:11 note. In itself a summons to unity. It is quite unnecessary, with Zahn, to remove it to the end of ch. 5. ἘᾺΝ ΚΑῚ with the subjunctive. St Paul p... [ Continue Reading ]
ἈΝΑΠΛΗΡΏΣΑΤΕ. Text. Rec. with אACDGRKL etc. syrHarcl. ἀναπληρώσετε is read by BG vulg. syrPesh. 2. The suggestion of common weakness producing sympathy with a fallen brother leads to the thought of active help. But, as usual with St Paul, this passes beyond the immediate connexion to a wider statem... [ Continue Reading ]
ΕἸ ΓᾺΡ. To be joined closely with Galatians 6:2, not Galatians 6:1. “For that opinion of self which will not suffer a man to stoop to this [i.e. bearing another’s burdens], is mere self-deception” (Jowett). Cf. Philippians 2:3-4, where also κενοδοξία is contrasted with helping others; cf. Galatians... [ Continue Reading ]
[ἝΚΑΣΤΟΣ] omitted by B, sahidic. 4. ΤῸ ΔῈ ἜΡΓΟΝ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂. The emphasis lies on “work.” To test oneself (1 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 13:5) might under the circumstances only increase the mental deception. Work as something external can be considered more dispassionately. Also it is his own wor... [ Continue Reading ]
ἝΚΑΣΤΟΣ ΓᾺΡ. This testing of yourselves is necessary, _for_ etc. Observe that when St Paul wrote this sentence it was not the platitude that it is now. For probably individual responsibility was not as clearly known, especially in circles dominated by Jewish ideas of the solidarity of Israel and the... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΟΙΝΩΝΕΊΤΩ ΔῈ. The verse gives a special instance of the burden-bearing expected of believers (Galatians 6:2). δέ. In contrast to the selfishness implied in Galatians 6:3. κοινωνεῖν, with dative of person, Philippians 4:15[162]; intransitive, not strictly “give,” but “share with,” which implies also... [ Continue Reading ]
7. The connexion is: If you spare yourselves and do not help others, e.g. your teachers as I have just said, you are living for the flesh, not the spirit, however much you deceive yourselves (Galatians 6:3). ΜῊ ΠΛΑΝΑ͂ΣΘΕ, “do not err.” The phrase occurs elsewhere in the N.T. only in 1 Corinthians 6... [ Continue Reading ]
7–10. _Show such kindness, for the Harvest will come_ (Galatians 6:7) Refusal to help others is, in reality, mocking God, who does avenge every insult, and bring the harvest of each man’s sowing. (Galatians 6:8) You remember the parable, where the ground made the difference? So if a man makes his ow... [ Continue Reading ]
8. St Paul defines what he means by sowing, but leaves the thought of strict identity of the seed, and, like our Lord in Matthew 13, regards the difference of soil into which the seed is cast. ὋΤΙ. The reason for the statement ὃ γὰρ ἐὰν κ.τ.λ. Ὁ ΣΠΕΊΡΩΝ ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ΣΆΡΚΑ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂. For σπείρειν with εἰς... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤῸ ΔῈ ΚΑΛῸΝ ΠΟΙΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. δέ in contrast to the doubtfulness of the double issue. καλόν, the good in fact and appearance. ΜῊ ἘΝΚΑΚΩ͂ΜΕΝ, “let us not be faint-hearted,” 2 Thessalonians 3:13. “Weary” (A.V., R.V.) suggests fatigue, but ἐνκακεῖν refers to mental disinclination, cf. Polyb. IV. 19.10. So S... [ Continue Reading ]
ἜΧΩΜΕΝ אB* 17. ἔχομεν, Text. Rec. with nearly all other authorities. So even in ἐργαζώμεθα, the next word, AB3LP read -ο-. So also Galatians 6:12 διώκονται is read by ACGKLP. 10. ἌΡΑ ΟΥ̓͂Ν, “accordingly therefore”; the “weaker ratiocinative force of ἄρα being supported by the collective power of οὖ... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΗΛΊΚΟΙΣ. ἡλίκοις is read by B* 17, Jerome, W. H. margin. 11. ἼΔΕΤΕ (1 John 3:1) ΠΗΛΊΚΟΙΣ. See notes on Textual Criticism. “See, with what large letters.” πηλ. Here in its strict sense of magnitude in dimension, Zechariah 2:2 (6) _bis_; contrast its metaphorical use in Hebrews 7:4; 4Ma 15:22[166].... [ Continue Reading ]
AUTOGRAPHIC SUMMARY _the autograph continuing till_ Galatians 5:18 _A contrast of the aims of the false teachers and of his own. The cross as the means of the new creation in believers is all important_. (Galatians 6:11) The very size of my letters shows the importance of what I, Paul, write with... [ Continue Reading ]
12. The absence of a connecting particle indicates that this is the writing to which St Paul refers in Galatians 6:11. It doubtless continues to the end of the Epistle. ὍΣΟΙ (Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:27; Galatians 6:16) ΘΈΛΟΥΣΙΝ (Galatians 1:7) ΕΥ̓ΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ͂ΣΑΙ[167]. Cf. εὐπροσωπίζεσθαι Psalms 140... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟἹ ΠΕΡΙΤΕΜΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ אACDKP vulg. syrr. οἱ περιτετμημένοι B(G)L Westcott and Hort marg. 13. ΟΥ̓ΔῈ ΓᾺΡ. I attribute this unworthy reason of fear to them, for etc. ΟἹ ΠΕΡΙΤΕΜΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ. See notes on Textual Criticism. Passive, and timeless, “the circumcision party”; for the full force of the present is ex... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΜΟῚ ΔῈ. Emphatic position for contrast with those of whom he has just spoken. ΜῊ ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ. With dative[170], see Genesis 44:7; Joshua 24:16 and cf. Matthew 15:28. [170] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament. ΚΑΥΧΑ͂ΣΘΑΙ ΕἸ ΜῊ... [ Continue Reading ]
ΟΥ̓́ΤΕ ΓᾺΡ B 17 syr(pesh) Harcl. text. ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ οὔτε אACDG etc. vulg. syrHarcl. marg, probably taken from Galatians 5:6. ἜΣΤΙΝ א*ABCD*G Syrpesh. Harcl. marg. ἰσχύει Text. Rec. with אcDcKLP etc. vulg. syrHarcl.text. _The subscription_ in אAB*C is simply πρὸς Γαλάτας. The Text. Rec. adds... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ ὍΣΟΙ. Without restriction; whatever their nationality or past or even present behaviour. The καί makes an apodosis in thought though not in form; if a new creation then peace and mercy. ΤΩ͂Ι ΚΑΝΌΝΙ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ, “by this rule,” i.e. the maxim of Galatians 6:14-15 culminating in the principle that a κ... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTHING CAN TROUBLE ME; I BELONG TO MY MASTER, JESUS A curious addition, illustrative of the strength of the emotion under which the Apostle wrote this Epistle. It is hardly a “note of denunciation,” but is to show that his own acceptance of Jesus as his Lord and Master is so thorough that nothing... [ Continue Reading ]
VALEDICTION Ἡ ΧΆΡΙΣ. Though ἡ χάρις is found at, or near, the close of each of St Paul’s Epistles, it is still true that “Hoc congruit cum tota epistola” (Bengel). ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ [ἡμῶν] (see Galatians 6:14) ἸΗΣΟΥ͂ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. The full phrase occurs in Romans 16:20 (W.H. marg.); 1 Thessalonians 5:28; 2... [ Continue Reading ]