Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 4:16
VERSE 16. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
VERSE 16. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Verse 16. _AM I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY_] How is it that you are so much altered towards me, that you now treat me as an enemy, who formerly loved me with the most fervent affection? Is it _becaus...
AM I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY ... - Is my telling you the truth in regard to the tendency of the doctrines which you have embraced, and the character of those who have led you astray, and your own...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
An affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, and begging them not to desert his faith. In the past,...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, because I became as you are. I have no complaints against the way that once you treated me. You know that it was because I was ill that I first preached the go...
BECAUSE, &c.. dealing truly with. Greek. _aletheuv_, Here and Ephesians 4:15. Compare App-175....
_Am I therefore_ -So that I am become … truth?" The _tone_of the sentence is interrogative, rather than the form. _I tell you the truth_ The reference is probably to the second visit to Galatia, when...
Personal Appeal The Apostle now makes a personal appeal, marked by deep affection and earnestness. "Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, free yourselves from the trammels of the ceremonial law an...
ὭΣΤΕ. He argues from the fact of the change in their feelings towards him that there must be a reason for it. Has my faithful speech shown that I am an enemy to you? ἘΧΘΡῸΣ ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΓΈΓΟΝΑ. From my secon...
12–20. _A further appeal, based on his own behaviour among them, and their treatment of him_ (Galatians 4:12) Become, as I became, free from the Law, like you Gentiles, as you saw me when I was among...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно, так что. Используется здесь с вопросом: "может ли быть, что я стал вашим врагом?" (Lightfoot). ΓΈΓΟΝΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, быть, ΆΛΗΘΕΎΩΝ _pr...
TEXT 4:16-20 (16) So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? (17) They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. (18) But it is good to...
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Translate, 'So then am I become (in your eyes) your enemy by telling you the truth?' (; .) He had not been counted their enemy at his...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
Paul *preached the truth when he first went to Galatia. And Paul was writing the truth in this letter. He was telling the Christians that they were wrong. So he probably offended some of them. False t...
YOUR ENEMY. — “The enemy” was the name by which St. Paul was commonly referred to by the party hostile to him in the next century. It is quite possible that the phrase “your enemy” ought to be placed,...
(12-16) Let me beg of you: cast off the bondage of Judaism as I have done, just as I gave p its privileges to place myself on a level with you. I have no complaint to make against you. You remember th...
CHAPTER 18 PAUL'S ENTREATY. Galatians 4:12 THE reproof of the last paragraph ended in a sigh. To see Christ's freemen relapsing into bondage, and exchanging their Divine birthright for childish toys...
ὥστε is often used in the sense of _therefore_ to introduce an imperative or an affirmative conclusion in the Epistles of Paul, but not an interrogation. I can see no reason here for making the clause...
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE APOSTLE AT THE CHANGED FEELING OF HIS CONVERTS; REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST; PATHETIC APPEAL TO OLD AFFECTION; PROTEST AGAINST PRESENT ESTRANGEMENT....
TRUTHFUL AND DEVOTED DEALING Galatians 4:12 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to trust in ceremonies, rites, and a prescribed routine! Inevita...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
Through infirmity of the flesh....and your temptation in my flesh. St. Jerome thinks the apostle had some bodily infirmity upon him. St. John Chrysostom understands his poverty, and want, and persecut...
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods....
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...
16._Am I therefore become your enemy? _He now returns to speak about himself. It was entirely their own fault, he says, that they had changed their minds. Though it is a common remark, that truth bege...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
AM I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY,.... Not that he was an enemy to them, he had the same cordial affection for them as ever; he had their true interest at heart, and was diligently pursuing it; but the...
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Ver. 16. _Am I therefore become, &c._] Truth breeds hatred, as the fair nymphs did the ugly fauns _a_ and satyrs. The hearing of truth...
_Where is then the blessedness ye spake of_ On which ye so congratulated one another? Since ye once thought yourselves so happy in my presence with, and my preaching among you, how happens it that you...
AM I, THEREFORE, BECOME YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?...
A personal appeal for the truth against the false teachers:...
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
HAVE I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH? Who is the enemy? Truth? Messenger? False teachers who take away your liberty as a son....
12-18 The apostle desires that they would be of one mind with him respecting the law of Moses, as well as united with him in love. In reproving others, we should take care to convince them that our r...
What hath now altered your mind, or made you have a worse opinion of me? Wherein have I offended you or done you any harm? I have done nothing but revealed to you the truth of God; am I therefore beco...
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? [I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, and be not Jews; for I forsook Judaism and became simply a Christian, which made me, in the eyes of...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Wherefore the apostle himself also in every case uses stringent language to the Churches, after the Lord's example; and conscious of his own boldness, and...
Galatians 4:16 I G1096 therefore G5620 become G1096 (G5754) your G5216 enemy G2190 tell G226 you G5213 truth...
PAUL NOW REVEALS HIS CONCERN AND LONGING FOR THEM (GALATIANS 4:12). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what they are losing by their foolishness....
‘So then am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?' What then is their response now that he is speaking stern but true words in order to try to put them right. Will they treat him as an en...
Galatians 4:16. SO THEN HAVE I BECOME YOUR ENEMY BY TELLING YOU THE TRUTH? He puts the conclusion politely and delicately in the form of a question instead of direct assertion. Others translate: ‘Ther...
2. _Affectionate Appeal to the Galatians._ Paul interrupts his argument for a moment by an affectionate appeal to the feelings of the Galatians. He reminds them of their former enthusiastic love and v...
YOUR ENEMY (εχθρος υμων). Active sense of εχθρος, hater with objective genitive. They looked on Paul now as an enemy to them. So the Pharisees and Judaizers generally now regarded him.BECAUSE I TEL...
Galatians 4:16 The Right Mode of Giving and Receiving Reproof. I. Men will profess, and perhaps unthinkingly believe, that they derive the most essential benefits derivable from a true friend; but if...
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
HAVE I NOW? "After all the love and devotion you showed to me your spiritual father, have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth of Christ and urging you to hold firmly to it???...
ENEMY OR FRIEND? So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16. This is a question St. Paul asked some of his friends in Galatia. He had been telling them some plain t...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:12 As in Galatians 3:1, Paul reminds the Galatians of what happened when they heard the gospel. He also contrasts his own ministry with that of the false teachers.
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:12. BE AS I AM, FOR I AM AS YE ARE.—Paul had become as a Gentile, though he was once a passionate Jew. Their natural leanings towards Judaism they ought t...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:27; 1 Ki
Therefore [ω σ τ ε]. Better, so then : seeing that your love for me has waned. Your enemy [ε χ θ ρ ο ς υ μ ω ν]. 'Ecqrov enemy, in an active sense, as is shown by the next clause. Not passive, an obj...
TURNING UNTO LAW-WORKS Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvation by law...
As if the apostle had said, "How comes your affections, which were so warm at first, to be so cold now? Whence is it that I, who was formerly so precious in your esteem, am now looked upon as an enemy...