Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Galatians 1:6

μετατίθεσθε : ye are removing (not removed as in A.V.). The agitators had not yet achieved any decisive success, though the Galatians were disposed to lend too ready an ear to their suggestions. It was not so much their actual progress, as the evidence afforded of the instability of the Galatian faith, that excited misgivings in the mind of Paul (cf. Galatians 4:11; Galatians 4:20); he regarded the movement as merely a little leaven, and had not lost his confidence in the personal loyalty of his converts and the general soundness of their faith (Galatians 5:9-10; Galatians 6:17. See Introd., p. 147). τοῦ καλέσαντος, sc. Θεοῦ. The Gospel call proceeded from God, like those to Abraham and the ancient servants and people of God; the Epistles of Paul invariably attribute it to Him (cf. Galatians 1:15), not to His human instruments. ἐν χάριτι. This is evidently not = εἰς τὴν χάριν (into the grace of Christ, A.V.), but records the spirit of Divine love which prompted the call. God, of His grace in Christ, sent forth the Gospel to the Galatians by the hands of Paul and Barnabas. ἕτερον. This passage brings out forcibly the different meaning of ἕτερος and ἄλλος. ἕτερος is primarily the other of two, ἄλλος another of several. Hence ἕτερος fixes attention on two objects exclusively (cf. note on τὸν ἕτερον in Galatians 6:4); here it marks the essential difference between the true and the spurious Gospel, distinguishing the latter as quite a different Gospel.

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