Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
Galatians 2:21
How can we "frustrate" the grace of God? How do we make the death of Christ vain?
How can we "frustrate" the grace of God? How do we make the death of Christ vain?
Verse Galatians 2:21. _I DO NOT FRUSTRATE_] ουκ αθετω. I do not _contemn,_ _despise_, or _render useless, the grace of God_-the doctrine of Christ crucified; which I must do if I preach the necessity...
I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD - The word rendered “frustrate” (ἀθετῶ athetō) means properly to displace, abrogate, abolish; then to make void, to render null; Mark 7:9; Luke 7:30;...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. How Jerusalem had Confirmed the Gospel Paul Preached. (Galatians 2:1)_ 2. Peter's Failure; Paul's Rebuke and Testimony. (Galatians 2:11) Fourteen years passed by before he ever saw Je...
Excitement and consequent confusion rise higher still. In one sense, these verses record a climax; Paul is not merely Peter's equal he had exposed him once when Peter was plainly in the wrong. There i...
If I build up again these very things that I destroyed, I simply succeed in making myself a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Chr...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
FRUSTRATE. Greek. _atheteo_ See Galatians 3:15 and John 12:48. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikaiosune_. App-191. BY. through, as Galatians 2:19. IS DEAD. died. IN VAIN. i.e.
The word rendered -frustrate" is used in reference both to persons and things, in the SENSE of setting at naught, treating with utter disregard and contempt. In ch. Galatians 3:15 it is used of settin...
The argument of these verses is somewhat obscure an obscurity due, partly to the inadequacy of language to express the intensity of the Apostle's feelings, partly to the introduction of metaphorical e...
We learn from Acts 15:22, foll. that when the Council broke up, certain members of the Apostolic company were sent to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, to convey to the Churches of Syria and Cilicia the...
10–2:21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIMSELF 10–12. _My one object is to please God, and to serve Christ, who revealed to me the Gospel_ (Galatians 1:10) I say “now,” for my words show clearly that I care n...
_His argument addressed to St Peter passes over into one addressed to the Galatians_ (vide infra). _The transition was the easier because the temptation to which the Galatians were exposed was identic...
A summary of Galatians 2:15-20, and indeed of the whole Epistle. I do not set at nought God’s grace, as you think of doing. There is no righteousness by means of the Law. If there were, Christ died an...
ΆΘΕΤΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΘΕΤΈΩ (G114) отставлять в сторону, отвергать. В папирусах это слово использовалось для обозначения долгов, которые отдавались и упразднялись, а также отстранения от должно...
GRACE OF GOD:— See ch. Galatians 1:6 to which this seems here opposed. The latter part of this verse will be found explained in St. Paul's own words, ch. 5. _Inferences,_ drawn from Galatians 2:17. On...
TEXT 2:20, 21 (20) I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the...
_ VERSE 21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD._ VERSE 21. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain....
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD - I do not make it void, as thou, Peter, art doing by Jud...
2 Paul's method in Jerusalem seems to have taken into account the low spiritual state and prejudices of the Jewish believers. It would have been practically impossible to impress the whole company wit...
HIS AUTHORITY RECOGNISED BY THE APOSTLES AT JERUSALEM AND MAINTAINED IN HIS CONFLICT WITH ST. PETER 1-10. It was not until upon the occasion of a subsequent visit to Jerusalem fourteen years later th...
Paul realised that God had been very kind to him. Christ’s death had a very important purpose. Only Christ could give people the right relationship with God. Paul would not start to trust in the laws...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL MET THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM V1 Then I returned to Jerusalem 14 years later with Barnabas. Titus came with me too. V2 God showed m...
(15-21) The section which follows is, in form at least, still a continuation of the rebuke addressed to St. Peter; but the Apostle soon drifts away from this, and begins imperceptibly a comment upon h...
In thus attaching himself devotedly to Christ, the Christian escapes the charge of refusing and thwarting the free gift of justification which God has offered to him in His Son. He has made his choice...
CHAPTER 10 THE PRINCIPLES AT STAKE. Galatians 2:19 PAUL'S personal apology is ended. He has proved his Apostolic independence, and made good his declaration, "My Gospel is not according to man." If...
Christ died in order that men might live before God by His grace in spite of a broken Law; if men could keep the Law of themselves and live, there would be no call for grace, and the death of Christ w...
JEWS THEMSELVES WERE DRIVEN TO RESORT TO CHRIST AS SINNERS FOR PARDON BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT OBTAIN JUSTIFICATION BY PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW NOT THAT THEY MIGHT THEREBY BECOME MORE FREE TO SIN, B...
LIVING BY FAITH IN CHRIST Galatians 2:11 Evidently Peter had gone back from the clear revelation of Acts 10:1, and from his former practice as stated in Galatians 2:12. The fear of the conservative p...
Having dealt with the divine origin of his teaching, the apostle now proceeded to show that his teaching was confirmed by the conference he had with the elders at Jerusalem fourteen years after his co...
(5) I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead (e) in vain. (5) The second argument taken from an absurdity: if men may be justified by the Law,...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us pass over every lesser consideration, of men, and things relating to the Apostles, and servants of Christ, to have our whole thoughts fixed and centered upon the Person of...
(20) I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himse...
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...
_CRUCIFIED, YET ALIVE_ ‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live.’ Galatians 2:20 I. CRUCIFIXION WAS THE MANNER IN WHICH CHRIST WAS PUT TO DEATH. (_a_) _ He suffered on a Cross_, and thus...
_THE CHRIST LIFE_ ‘Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.’ Galatians 2:20 Christianity is, before all things and above all things, a life to be lived. Let us endeavour to trace briefly some of the cha...
_LESSONS FROM ST. PAUL_ ‘The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.’ Galatians 2:20 I put St. Paul before you as the breakwater that withstands sceptical attacks...
_A PRECIOUS INHERITANCE_ ‘Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.’ Galatians 2:20 I. WHOM HE LOVED.—Mark the expression, ‘Who loved _ me_.’ Not my sins. No; He looked upon all these with righteous...
21._I do not reject. _There is great emphasis in this expression; for how dreadful is the ingratitude manifested in despising the grace of God, so invaluable in itself, and obtained at such a price! Y...
He then speaks historically of his ministry, and of the question whether man had anything to do with it. His gospel was not according to man, for he had not received it from any man; he had not been t...
I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD,.... Or "cast it away", as the Vulgate Latin version reads it; or "deny it", as the Syriac and Arabic; or "despise, reject, and make it void", as other versions; me...
The apostle proceeds in describing how he was freed from the dominion as well as guilt of sin, and how far he was from continuing in the commission of it. _I am crucified with Christ_ To sin, to the w...
DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD; set it aside as of no efficacy, as do the false teachers, by going back to the law for justification. IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW; if there is any other way of...
I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD; FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN. Whether these words belong to the reproof which Paul addressed to Peter at Antioch or are a furt...
The lessons drawn from this incident:...
THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE Not until fourteen years later was there any consultation between Paul and the apostles generally. On this occasion (of which Acts 15:1 gives the history) Paul went with Barna...
20,21 Here, in his own person, the apostle describes the spiritual or hidden life of a believer. The old man is crucified, Romans 6:6, but the new man is living; sin is mortified, and grace is quicke...
I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD; I do not despise, reject, make void, (for by all these words the word here used is translated, Mark 7:9 1 Thessalonians 12:48 1 Thessalonians 3:15...
I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought. [I do not, Peter, in following my course, make void the grace of God which gave us Christ. Bu...
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‘I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the Law then Christ is dead in vain.' The suggestion from this verse is that others do make void the grace of God, for they insist...
PAUL NOW DEALS WITH OBJECTIONS TO HIS STATEMENT AND STRESSES THAT THE LAW'S PURPOSE IS TO POINT TO CHRIST (GALATIANS 2:17). ‘But, if while we have sought to be justified in Christ, we also were found...
Galatians 2:21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE, or set at nought, make of no effect, nullify, as the Judaizers do with their assertion of the necessity of the law for justification. THE GRACE OF GOD, which reve...
_The Collision of Paul with Peter at Antioch._ Paul continues to prove his independent Apostolic dignity, and shows that he asserted it even in open opposition to Peter at Antioch before the mother co...
I DO NOT MAKE VOID THE GRACE OF GOD (ουκ αθετω την χαριν του θεου). Common word in LXX and Polybius and on, to make ineffective (α privative and τιθημ, to place or put). Some critic would charge hi...
GRACE Grace (in salvation). (Galatians 5:4); (Romans 3:24). (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:17). _ RIGHTEOUSNESS ( See Scofield) - ...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation,-_ He was sent by the church at Antioch, but the church...
Galatians 2:15. We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesu...
Galatians 2:16. _Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ...
CONTENTS: Paul's journey to Jerusalem and His contest for the truth. Justification by faith in Christ without works. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Barnabas, Titus, Peter, James, Cephas, John. CONCLUSION:...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem, and took Titus,_ his fellow-labourer. Luke adds, “and others also.” Acts 15:2. We may gather from this, that Luke was of the co...
I DO NOT REJECT. "I do not reject God's grace, but you and the _circumcision party_ are doing it when you try to be put right with God through The Law. If The Law puts a man right with God, then Chris...
_I am crucified with Christ._ THE BELIEVER’S RIDDLE This verse enunciates three striking paradoxes which are realized in the experience of every Christian. I. The judicial paradox, or the mystery of...
_I do not frustrate the grace of God._ SALVATION BY WORKS A CRIMINAL DOCTRINE 1. The idea of salvation by the merit of our own works is exceedingly insinuating. When it gains the least foothold, it...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:21 Christ’s death would have been pointless IF RIGHTEOUSNESS WERE THROUGH THE LAW. Then people could earn justification by their obedience. But they can never do this. Si...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:11 Paul was not a people-pleaser (Galatians 1:10). His confrontation with Peter proves this....
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul declares that he had compared his Gospel with Peter, James, and John, and that it had been approved of them so completely that there was nothing to be added...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 2:11. WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE.—The strongest proof of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostl...
EXPOSITION In the preceding chapter, St. Paul has been concerned to make clear the position that neither the gospel which he preached nor the commission which he held was derived from the older apostl...
Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me also (Galatians 2:1). So Paul no doubt had been ministering in Syria and Cilicia, the area around Tarsus,...
1 Corinthians 15:14; 1 Corinthians 15:17; 1 Corinthians 15:2; Galatians 2:16;...
Frustrate [α θ ε τ ω]. Annul or invalidate. Comp. Mark 7:9; 1 Corinthians 1:19; Galatians 3:15. The grace of God [τ η ν χ α ρ ι ν τ ο υ θ ε ο υ]. Cariv is, primarily, that which gives joy [χ α ρ α]. I...
LAW AND GRACE Galatians 2:15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The drift toward Jewish rites and ceremonies. When the early Church came into existence at Pentecost, it was formed from the saved composed of Jews...
Meantime I do not make void — In seeking to be justified by my own works. The grace of God — The free love of God in Christ Jesus. But they do, who seek justification by the law. For if righteousness...
The apostle concludes the chapter with. double argument, to prove the Christian's justification by faith, without the works of the law. 1. Were it otherwise, we should frustrate and make void the gra...