Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 3:4
VERSE 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain?
VERSE 4. If it be yet in vain.
VERSE 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain?
VERSE 4. If it be yet in vain.
Verse Galatians 3:4. _HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN?_] Have ye received and lost so much good? The verb πασχων, as compounded with ευ, _well_, or κακως, _ill_, and often without either, sig...
HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN? - Paul reminds them of what they had endured on account of their attachment to Christianity. He assures them, that if the opinions on account of which they had...
II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_ 2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
GALATIANS 3:1 TO GALATIANS 5:12. DOCTRINAL SECTION. PAUL SETS THE CHOICE BEFORE THEM CHRIST OR THE LAW AND ARGUES FOR ITS URGENCY. Galatians 3:1. It was a strange folly which could lead them to forget...
O senseless Galatians, who has put the evil eye on you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded upon his Cross? Tell me this one thing--did you receive the Spirit by doing the works the...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
IN VAIN. See Romans 13:4. IF. Greek. _ei_. App-118....
_Have ye suffered so many things in vain?_ The reference is, as in Galatians 3:2, to persecutions experienced by them at the time of their conversion. Though we have no record of these, yet, as Bp. Li...
(Second Division of the Epistle.) The Doctrine of Justification by Faith discussed and illustrated...
He has spoken of their past experience of spiritual blessings; now he appeals to their past sufferings. ΤΟΣΑΥ͂ΤΑ ἘΠΆΘΕΤΕ. τος., “so many”; cf. 4Ma 16:4 τοσαῦτα καὶ τηλικαῦτα πάθη. The frequency of the...
3–5:12. A CLEAR DOCTRINAL STATEMENT OF SALVATION BY FAITH, WITH RENEWED APPEALS...
_Your very reason, and your own experience, should tell you the all-importance of faith_ (Galatians 3:1) Unreasoning Galatians! who hath “overlooked” you? when you had a full counter charm—Jesus Chri...
ΤΟΣΑΫ́ΤΑ _pl. от_ ΤΟΣΟΎΤΟΣ (G5118) такой, столь большой, _pl._ столько вещей, ΈΠΆΘΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) испытывать. Это слово может значить "переносить неприятности" ("страдать"), ил...
HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN?— As much persecution might be declined by admitting this mixture of Judaism, there was reason to fear that a regard to their own present ease and convenience l...
PART TWO JUSTIFICATION: NOT BY LAW BUT BY FAITH IN CHRIST 3:1-4:31 A. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH PROVED. Galatians 3:1-14 1. By reception of the Holy Spirit Galatians 3:1-5 TEXT 3:1-5 (1) O foolish G...
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS - namely, persecution from Jews and from fellow-countrymen, incited by the Jews: evidences that ye 'b...
3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves. Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the law...
HAVE YE SUFFERED.. IN VAIN] It was all for naught, and might better not have been endured, unless the gospel is deserving of their consistent adherence. IF _it be_ YET IN VAIN] There was still hope th...
JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spirit h...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic powers to lead...
Paul was probably referring to wonderful experiences, like the *miracles that God did (verse 5). Paul did not believe that the Christians would forget them. Experiences like that affect people deeply....
SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS. — The Galatians, like other churches, were subjected to much persecution when first they embraced Christianity. The persecutors were probably their own Jewish countrymen, whos...
III. (1-5) Whence this strange relapse? It is not as if you were ignorant of better things. The crucified Saviour, the one great object of faith, has been preached before you in a way too plain to be...
CHAPTER 11 THE GALATIAN FOLLY. Galatians 3:1. AT the beginning of chap. 3 falls the most marked division of this Epistle. So far, since the exordium, its course has been strictly narrative. The Apos...
The persecutions endured by the Galatian converts had all been due to the jealous animosity of the Jews: if they were now to accept the Law after all, they would proclaim their former resistance to ha...
WHAT SENSELESS FOLLY IS IT FOR YOU, WHO HAD THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST SET PLAINLY BEFORE YOUR EYES, TO RESORT NOW TO CIRCUMCISION! THINK ONLY HOW IT WAS THAT YOU RECEIVED THE SPIRIT: WAS IT BY OBEDIEN...
RIGHTEOUSNESS BASED ON FAITH Galatians 3:1 The strong tendency of the Galatian Christians to depend upon ceremonies or upon legal obedience, _in addition_ to their faith in Christ, elicits in this c...
Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did they...
(3) Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain. (3) An exhortation by manner of reproach, so that they do not in vain suffer so many conflicts....
If yet in vain: i.e. I have still good hopes, that what you have already suffered by persecutions and self-denials, since your conversion, will not be in vain; as they would be, if you sought to be ju...
(1) В¶ 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? (2) This only would I learn of...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
4._Have ye suffered so many things? _This is another argument. Having suffered so many things in behalf of the gospel, would they now, in an instant, lose it all? Nay, he puts it in the way of reproac...
What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we, under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
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 wh...
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if _it be_ yet in vain. Ver. 4. _If it be in vain_] _q.d._ It is not in vain. God keepeth the feet of the saints, that they cannot altogether lose the things...
_This only would I learn of you_ That is, this one argument might convince you; _received ye the Spirit_ In his gifts and graces, in his witness and fruits. See Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:22. _By the...
SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS; on account of their professed attachment to Christ. IF IT BE YET IN VAIN; as it would be, if they should forsake the gospel for the Jewish ceremonial law....
SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:...
HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN? IF IT BE YET IN VAIN!...
FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks out...
Have you lost your marbles? You can not leave the flesh, live in the Spirit of God, and then return to the flesh....
SO MANY: Or, so great...
1-5 Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. They had the doctrine of the cross preached, and the Lord's supper administered among them, in both which Christ crucified, and the...
There is no doubt but these churches in the regions of Galatia had their share in the sufferings of Christians by the Jews for their adherence to and profession of the doctrine of the gospel, which th...
Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If it be indeed vain. [Paul here reproves them in that they have begun their life in the manhood of the Spirit, with the attendant spiritual powers, liberties and...
Galatians 3:4 suffered G3958 (G5627) things G5118 indeed G1489 G2532 vain G1500 you - Eze
‘Did you suffer (or experience) so many things in vain? That is if it is indeed in vain.' It is possible that the Galatian Christians had suffered persecution as a result of their response to Christ ...
PAUL CONFIRMS WHAT HE HAS SAID BY POINTING OUT THAT EVERY BLESSING THEY HAVE RECEIVED WAS RECEIVED THROUGH FAITH (GALATIANS 3:1). Paul now reminds the Galatians of how they first came to Christ, and w...
Galatians 3:4. DID YE EXPERIENCE SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN? The usual rendering ‘suffer' would refer to persecutions which the Galatians had to endure (probably from the Jews); but as we know nothing of...
DID YE SUFFER? (επαθετε?). Second aorist active indicative of πασχω, to experience good or ill. But alone, as here, it often means to suffer ill (τοσαυτα, so many things). In North Galatia we have n...
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
3:1. _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?_ These Galatians thought that...
Galatians 3:1. _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 lea...
Galatians 3:1. _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 o...
CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law. CHARA...
Galatians 3:1. _Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you:_ εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the trut...
YOUR EXPERIENCE? The Galatian Christians had suffered much in the persecution which hostile Jews brought against them. Compare 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16. If they abandon the gospel, all this effort will...
_Have ye suffered so many things in vain?_ THE VANITY OF PAST CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE CASE OF APOSTASY Unless you continue faithful to the end, all your former Christian life must remain without the re...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ. I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:1. WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU?—Fascinated you, as if overlooked by the evil eye, so that your brain is confused. The Galatians were reputed to possess acute in...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 3:1 O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There...
2 John 1:8; 2 Peter 2:20; Ezekiel 18:24; Hebrews 10:32; Hebrews 6:4
Have ye suffered [ε π α θ ε τ ε]. Or, did ye suffer. The exact sense is doubtful. By some it is held that the reference is to sufferings endured by the Galatian Christians either through heathen perse...
Have ye suffered — Both from the zealous Jews and from the heathens. So many things — For adhering to the gospel. In vain — So as to lose all the blessings which ye might have obtained, by enduring to...
As if the apostle had said, "To what purpose have you suffered so many persecutions from the Jews, for the cause of Christianity? All which sufferings will be in vain, if, after all, you bring yoursel...