McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Galatians 3:6
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. [Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:21-22]
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. [Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:21-22]
Verse Galatians 3:6. _ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD_] This is quoted from Genesis 15:6, where see the note; and St. Paul produces it, Romans 4:3, where also see the notes. Abraham, while even uncircumcised, b...
EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD ... - see this passage fully explained in the notes at Romans 4:3. The passage is introduced here by the apostle to show that the most eminent of the patriarchs was not sa...
II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_ 2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
GALATIANS 3:1 TO GALATIANS 5:12. DOCTRINAL SECTION. PAUL SETS THE CHOICE BEFORE THEM CHRIST OR THE LAW AND ARGUES FOR ITS URGENCY. Galatians 3:1. It was a strange folly which could lead them to forget...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
O senseless Galatians, who has put the evil eye on you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded upon his Cross? Tell me this one thing--did you receive the Spirit by doing the works the...
BELIEVED. Greek. pisteud. App-150. GOD. App-98. ACCOUNTED. Greek. _logizomai_, See Romans 4:3. FOR. Greek. _eis_. App-104. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikaiosune_, App-191. Quoted from Genesis 15:6....
Exemplified by the case of Abraham 6. We must supply the obvious answers to the question of Galatians 3:5. Assuredly those miraculous powers followed the preaching of _faith_; (comp. Mark 16:20) and...
_Your very reason, and your own experience, should tell you the all-importance of faith_ (Galatians 3:1) Unreasoning Galatians! who hath “overlooked” you? when you had a full counter charm—Jesus Chri...
6. This verse serves both as an answer to St Paul’s question in Galatians 3:5—yes, it was by faith—and also as a transition to the next important paragraph showing the same truth from Scripture. Marci...
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_GALATIANS 3:6_.— St. Paul's next argument against circumcision and subjection to the law is, "That the children of Abraham, intitled to the inheritance and blessing promised to Abraham and his seed,...
Justification by faith proved by the case of Abraham. Galatians 3:6-9 TEXT 3:6-9 (6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (7) Know therefore that they that ar...
_VERSE 6. EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS._ The Apostle next adduces the example of Abraham and reviews the testimony of the Scriptures concerning faith. Th...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. The answer to is here taken for granted, It was by the hearing of faith: following this up, he says, "Even as Abraham be...
3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves. Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the law...
3:6 righteousness. (d-13) See Genesis 15:6 ....
JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spirit h...
AS ABRAHAM] a typical case, which the Judaisers could not gainsay: cp. Genesis 15:6. St. Paul declares: Our Jewish sacred Scriptures teach salvation by faith. Abraham was blessed because he trusted in...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic powers to lead...
You can read about Abraham in Genesis Chapter s 12 to 25. Abraham believed and trusted God. Because of that, God accepted Abraham. Abraham did not try to make himself good by his own efforts. God had...
(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law; just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness. Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends...
EVEN AS. — The argument is here very condensed. Ideas lie close together in the Apostle’s mind which are some distance apart in ours. He asks whether, in bestowing the gifts of the Spirit upon the Chr...
CHAPTER 12 ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE. Galatians 3:6 FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By this gate th...
WHAT SENSELESS FOLLY IS IT FOR YOU, WHO HAD THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST SET PLAINLY BEFORE YOUR EYES, TO RESORT NOW TO CIRCUMCISION! THINK ONLY HOW IT WAS THAT YOU RECEIVED THE SPIRIT: WAS IT BY OBEDIEN...
The faith of the Galatians is likened to that of Abraham, in that it found the same acceptance with God. The quotation of Genesis 15:6 _was reckoned_ follows the LXX, whereas our version, following th...
RIGHTEOUSNESS BASED ON FAITH Galatians 3:1 The strong tendency of the Galatian Christians to depend upon ceremonies or upon legal obedience, _in addition_ to their faith in Christ, elicits in this c...
Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did they...
(5) Even as (e) Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (5) The fifth argument which is of great force, and has three grounds. The first, that Abraham was justified by fa...
As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. See Romans iv. 3. They only who imitate the faith of Abraham shall be blessed with him, and are his spiritual children,...
(6) В¶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (7) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (8) And the scripture, for...
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...
Having appealed to facts and experience, he now gives quotations from Scripture. And first, he brings forward the example of Abraham. Arguments drawn from examples are not always so conclusive, but th...
What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we, under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD,.... The apostle having observed, that the special grace and extraordinary gifts of the Spirit were received not through the preaching of the law, but through the doctrine...
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Ver. 6. _It was accounted to him_] This the Papists jeeringly call a putative righteousness. The Jews also deride it, and...
_He therefore_ Namely, God; _that ministereth to you the Spirit_ Who is continually giving you additional supplies of grace by the Spirit; _and worketh miracles_, &c. Bestows the extraordinary gifts o...
Paul brings Scripture-proof for his position:...
EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS....
FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks out...
All who live by faith are the spiritual children of Abraham....
ACCOUNTED: Or, imputed...
6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose fa...
As Abraham was justified, so must all the children of Abraham; but ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, (that is, agreed to the truth of all those promises which God gave him, and trusted in God for the fulfilling o...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But the Scripture, fore-seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, declared to Abraham beforehand, That in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then th...
Galatians 3:6 as G2531 Abraham G11 believed G4100 (G5656) God G2316 and G2532 accounted G3049 (G5681) him...
PAUL CONFIRMS WHAT HE HAS SAID BY POINTING OUT THAT EVERY BLESSING THEY HAVE RECEIVED WAS RECEIVED THROUGH FAITH (GALATIANS 3:1). Paul now reminds the Galatians of how they first came to Christ, and w...
‘He therefore who supplies to you the Spirit, and works powerful works among you (or ‘within you'), does he do it by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and...
Galatians 3:6. The only reply the Galatians could make to the foregoing question was: ‘By the preaching of faith.' Taxing this for granted, Paul proceeds (as in Romans 4:1) to give the historical and...
IT WAS RECKONED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS (ελογισθη εις δικαιοσυνην). First aorist passive indicative of λογιζομα. See on 1 Corinthians 13:5 for this old word. He quotes Genesis 15:6 and uses it at...
GOD Jehovah. (Genesis 15:6)....
3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?_ These Galatians thought that...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I lea...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,_ Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries o...
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law. CHARA...
Galatians 3:1. _Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you:_ εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the trut...
ABOUT ABRAHAM. Genesis 15:6. "The Scriptures (Old Testament) prove that God intended both Jews and Gentiles to be put right with him through faith, and not through The Law." AND BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH....
_Even as Abraham believed God._ THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM I. A simple, child-like dependence on the naked word of God. II. An acceptance of and trust in God’s promised Saviour. III. A renouncing of his...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:6 Paul issues a second direct appeal to the Galatians: it is not just their own experience of receiving the gospel by faith that should teach them that salvation is not b...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ. I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:6. EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.—Where justification is there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith the latter must also. Galatians 3:8. PRE...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 3:1 O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There...
2 Corinthians 5:19; Galatians 3:9; Genesis 15:6; James 2:23; Romans
Even as [κ α θ ω ς]. The answer to the question of verse 5 is so obvious that it is not given. Paul proceeds at once to the illustration - the argument for the righteousness of faith furnished in the...
Doubtless in confirmation of that grand doctrine, that we are justified by faith, even as Abraham was. The Apostle, both in this and in the epistle to the Romans, makes great use of the instance of Ab...
Here our apostle proceeds to. second argument, to prove that persons are justified by faith, and not by works; and that is drawn from the example of Abraham: And the argument lies thus: "As Abraham, t...