Galatians 4:15

The people had been happy when Paul *preached to them. They were happy that Paul was with them. They wanted to help him in any way that they could. They wanted to help him to become well in his body. Some people think that Paul’s illness affected his eyes. But Paul probably used a special form of words that we call an ‘idiom’. An idiom is a special phrase. It does not mean what the words say. But it could emphasise what someone means. Paul wrote, ‘You even would have taken out your eyes and you would have given them to me.’ This may not mean that they wanted to make Paul’s eyes better. It just emphasised how much the Christians in Galatia cared about Paul. And it showed how generous they were.