I wish. Both the TEV and the NIV give the literal translation of what Paul actually said. Paul is speaking in bitter irony! The Expositor's Greek Testament says: "APOKOPSONTAI. This word was habitually used to describe the practice of mutilation which was so prevalent in the Phrygian worship of Cybele. The Galatians were necessarily familiar with it, and it can hardly bear any other sense."
Verse 12. _I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU._] This saying has puzzled many, and different interpretations of the place have been proposed by learned men. At first sight it seems as...
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF - That is, as I understand it, from the communion of the church. So far am I, says Paul, from agreeing with them, and preaching the necessity of circumcision as they do,...
III. THE WALK OF THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER, AS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Stand fast! Be not entangled! (Galatians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations and the law of love. (Galatians 5:7) 3....
Final emphatic statement of the dilemma, Christ or circumcision. Paul, speaking with all authority in spite of false inferences drawn from his circumcising Timothy (Galatians 5:11) and in spite of pro...
Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. Again I give my word to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is under...
AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING (Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1) 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands writte...
WERE, &c.. even dismembered themselves. Reference to the rite practised by the Phrygians in the worship of Cybele. Compare Mark 9:43, (Revised Version would even cut themselves off) TROUBLE. Greek. _...
The Apostle gives vent to his righteous indignation. _they were even cut off_ Two explanations of this expression are given. All expositors however agree in translating the verb as a _middle_, not as...
ὌΦΕΛΟΝ. This shortened form of ὤφελον has become virtually a particle, _utinam_, both in the LXX. (Exodus 16:3) and in the N.T., with a past tense (1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 11:1;...
_Against continuing in retrogression; with sharp words against the leader and the false teachers generally_ (Galatians 5:7) You were running your race nobly; who hindered you, so that (to drop all met...
_Another, but sharper, appeal and warning. The observance of the Law is inconsistent with faith in Christ _...
ΌΦΕΛΟΝ (G3785) я бы, о если бы; устойчивое сочетание в роли частицы, вводящей выражение недостижимых желаний (BAGD, 181f). Здесь используется с FUT. _ind._ для выражения достижимого желания, хотя выпо...
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU.— _Who subvert_ or _unsettle you._ It by no means agrees with the gentle genius of Christianity to suppose that this Apostle, who understood it so well...
TEXT 5:10-12 (10) I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. (11) But I, brethren, if I stil...
_VERSE 12. I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU._ Paul does right to curse these troublers of the Galatians, wishing that they were cut off and rooted out of the Church of God and that the...
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. THEY ... WHICH TROUBLE YOU, [ anastatountes (G387)] - turning upside down (Acts 17:6): setting up what ought to be down, and down what ought to be...
1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...
5:12 cut (d-7) Or 'mutilate.'...
THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation. P...
WERE EVEN CUT OFF] RV 'would even cut themselves off,' RM 'would even mutilate themselves'; i.e. would even go beyond circumcision, like the priests of Cybele, whom the Galatians had formerly worshipp...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE V1 We have freedom because Christ has made us free. Be certain that you remain free. You must not allow yourselv...
Paul was very angry with the false teachers. In some *Gentile religions, the male priests cut off their male sex parts. The *Jewish law did not allow any such behaviour. Paul was saying that the false...
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF. — The Authorised version is undoubtedly wrong here. The words may mean “cut themselves off,” _i.e.,_ from your communion, but it seems far best to take the words, with...
(7-12) All was going well at first. What sudden intruder has stopped your path and led you astray? Certainly it is not God, to whom you owe your calling, that has persuaded you to such a course. You t...
CHAPTER 21 THE HINDERERS AND TROUBLERS. Galatians 5:7 THE Apostle's controversy with the Legalists is all but concluded. He has pronounced on the question of circumcision. He has shown his readers,...
ὄφελον. This adverb occurs also in 1Co 4:8, 2 Corinthians 11:1; Revelation 3:15. In all three places it expresses dissatisfaction with the actual position, “Would that it were otherwise”. But it acqui...
to Galatians 5:12. Freedom is our birthright in Christ and an essential condition of our call. Accordingly the Apostle protests against the claim that all Christians should be circumcised, as a depart...
HOLD FAST YOUR FREEDOM Galatians 5:1 We are free. The Son has made us free, and we are free indeed, though not free to disobey the dictates and promptings of our new nature. We are set free from minu...
The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumcis...
(11) I would they were even cut off which (g) trouble you. (11) An example of a true pastor inflamed with the zeal of God's glory, and love for his flock. (g) For those that preach the Law cause men...
(6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This...
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...
12._Would that they were even cut off_. His indignation proceeds still farther, and he prays for destruction on those impostors by whom the Galatians had been deceived. The word, “cut off,” appears to...
It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. If they took that gr...
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU. These words are a solemn wish of the apostle's with respect to the false teachers, or an imprecation of the judgment of God upon them; that they might...
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. Ver. 12. _I would they were even cut_] Not circumcised only, cut round, but cut off, _Non circumcidantur modo, sed et abscindantur._ (Chrys.) _ That...
_And I, brethren_ If, as my enemies insinuate; _I yet preach circumcision_ As necessary to salvation, and urge it upon the believing Gentiles; _why do I yet suffer persecution_ From the Jews, as one a...
The service of love as opposed to the service of the flesh:...
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU....
LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from the...
I COULD WISH THAT THOSE WHO TROUBLE YOU WOULD EVEN CUT THEMSELVES OFF! Judiazing teachers should be cut off. Romans 16:17 - "Mark them" 2 Timothy 3:5 - "turn away" Titus 1:10-11 - "mouths stopped...
7-12 The life of a Christian is a race, wherein he must run, and hold on, if he would obtain the prize. It is not enough that we profess Christianity, but we must run well, by living up to that profe...
I wish that God would some way or other put an end to these that trouble you. This Paul speaketh not out of hatred to their persons, but out of a zeal to the glory of God, and a just indignation again...
I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision. [If those who trouble you insist on mutilating themselves, I wish they would go further and cut themselves entirely off from the...
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul How should he not, when he himself experiences the same? "I would," says he, "that they were even cut off which trouble you."[113] Tertullian On Modesty wishing ev...
Galatians 5:12 wish G3785 trouble G387 (G5723) you G5209 even G2532 off G609 (G5698) cut -...
‘I would that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off.' NEB puts this in this way, ‘as for these agitators, they had better go the whole way and make eunuchs of themselves' (i.e. like the...
PAUL IS PUZZLED BY THEIR FAILURE AND ANGRY AT THOSE WHO HAVE LED THEM ASTRAY (GALATIANS 5:7). Paul now again expresses his deep puzzlement at their behaviour. He just cannot understand how they can b...
Galatians 5:12. I WISH THAT THEY WHO ARE UNSETTLING YOU WOULD EVEN GO ON TO ABSCISSION; that the circumcisers would not stop with the half measure of circumcision, but go beyond it even to abscission...
_Exhortation to Steadfastness in Christian Freedom_, _and Warning against Legal Bondage._ Here begins the practical part of the Epistle, consisting of exhortations and warnings appropriate to the occ...
I WOULD (οφελον). Would that, used as conjunction in wishes. See on 1 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:1. Here a wish about the future with future indicative.THEY WHICH UNSETTLE YOU (ο αναστατουν...
Galatians 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ had made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Chris...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage._ «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subje...
CONTENTS: Liberty of the believer in Christ, apart from the law. Conflict of flesh and the Spirit. Christian character the result of the Spirit's work not self-effort. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,_ by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your cele...
_I would they were even cut off that trouble you._ REASONS FOR PAUL’S INDIGNATION Not content with argument he charges the Judaizers with what is base, cowardly, and corrupt. They are mean and time-s...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 5:1 Those who turn to the law for salvation cut themselves off from salvation. ⇐ ⇔
CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ's righteousness, since in Him neit...
_I would that they were even cut off which trouble you._ Cut off from the Church and your fellowship, lest they corrupt the whole. Cf. 1 Corinthians 5:3. This is the obvious meaning, and one befitting...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 5:9. A LITTLE LEAVEN.—Of false doctrine, a small amount of evil influence. Galatians 5:10. HE THAT TROUBLETH YOU.—The leaven traced to personal agency; whoe...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 5:1 GALATIANS 5:2 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); _lo_,_ I Paul say unto you. _The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Paul's writings on...
Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Je...
1 Corinthians 5:13; Acts 15:1; Acts 15:2; Acts 15:24; Acts 5:5;...
They were cut off [α π ο κ ο ψ ο ν τ α ι]. More correctly, would cut themselves off. Perhaps the severest expression in Paul's Epistles. It turns on the practice of circumcision. Paul says in effect :...
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative to the Sp...
I would they were even cut off — From your communion; cast out of your church, that thus trouble you....
The apostle's meaning is, "That it were very fit, were it seasonable, that those which had thus seduced them, should be excommunicated and and cut off from the church's communion. Where note, 1. How i...