Galatians 1:24. In me, in my case, or example, not on my account. The Christian hero-worship gives all the glory to God. Chrysostom: ‘He does not say, they marvelled at me, they were struck with admiration of me, but he attributes all to grace. They glorified God, he says, in me.' This truly Christian conduct of the Jewish converts in Palestine contrasts favorably with the envy and calumny of the Judaizers in Galatia.
Verse Galatians 1:24. _THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME._] Hearing now that I preached that faith which before I had persecuted and endeavoured to destroy, they glorified God for the grace which had wrought m...
AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME - They praised God on my account. They regarded me as a true convert and a sincere Christian; and they praised God that he had converted such a persecutor, and had made hi...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE TESTIMONY OF PAUL CONCERNING HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND THE GOSPEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Galatians 1:1)_ 2. The Rebuke. (Galatians 1:6) 3. Paul's Gospe...
Not till he had been three years a Christian and a Christian preacher did he come in contact with the earlier apostles; and then but slightly. He visited Cephas at Jerusalem, spending a fortnight with...
Then, three years after that, I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and I stayed with him a fortnight. I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother. As for what I am writing to you--befor...
THE TRUMPET CALL OF THE GOSPEL (Galatians 1:1-5)...
GLORIFIED, &c.. were glorifying (Greek. _doxazo_, See p. 1511) God in me, i.e. finding in Paul cause for glorifying God,...
The conduct of the Judæan Christians is noteworthy, not only as in marked contrast with that of the Judaizing party in Galatia, but as testifying to the soundness of the Apostle's teaching. The Gospel...
They only heard reports to the effect that, Our former persecutor is now preaching the faith which he once was seeking to destroy....
_A short visit to Jerusalem and then a long absence. Yet the churches of Judaea, though they knew me not by sight, recognized me and my work_ (Galatians 1:18) Then three years from my conversion I did...
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...
ΚΑῚ ἘΔΌΞΑΖΟΝ. In this meaning, frequent in N.T. and LXX. From Polybius onwards in the passive voice only (see Nägeli. _Wortschatz_, p. 61). The tense suggests that they found continued cause for δόξα....
ΈΔΌΞΑΖΟΝ _impf. ind. part. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ (G1392) славить, возносить кого-л. в глазах другого. _Impf._ значит: "они начали славить и продолжили" ΈΝ ΈΜΟ (G1722; G1473) во мне. Предлог указывает на основу...
DISCOURSE: 2053 GOD GLORIFIED IN HIS PEOPLE Galatians 1:23. _They had heard only, that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in...
IN ME.— _On my account._ Doddridge. _INFERENCES.—_With what entire satisfaction may we depend upon the divine authority of the Gospel which was delivered by the Apostle Paul, who has testified, even u...
c) His visit to Jerusalem was not long enough for instruction in the gospel. Galatians 1:18-24 TEXT 1:18-24 (18) Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him f...
see note on vs 22...
And they glorified God in me. IN ME - in my person. 'Learning that the former wolf is now acting the shepherd's part, they received occasion for joyful thanksgiving to God in respect to me' (Theod...
ST. PAUL MAINTAINS THE VALIDITY OF HIS APOSTLESHIP AND THE TRUTH OF HIS GOSPEL 1-5. The Apostle sends greetings from himself and the brethren with him to the Churches of Galatia, reminding them at th...
THEY GLORIFIED, etc.] They considered Saul's conversion not as a great gain to the Church, but as a great victory of grace. IN ME] in my case....
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS THE WRITER Paul wrote this letter. His name used to be Saul. He was called Saul until Acts 13:9, when he was...
Paul had changed completely. The *churches in Judea heard reports about Paul. They were pleased to hear what God was doing in Paul’s life. So they praised God because God had changed Paul so much. Thi...
(18-24) Nor did that consultation with the elder Apostles, which had hitherto been impossible, take place when, at last, after the lapse of three years, the Apostle did go up to Jerusalem. He saw inde...
THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME. — This verse represents the proper attitude of Christian hero-worship. An eminent Christian is like a “city set on a hill.” But the admiration which he attracts does not rest...
CHAPTER 6 PAUL AND THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. Galatians 1:18 FOR the first two years of his Christian life, Paul held no intercourse whatever with the Church at Jerusalem and its chiefs. His relation wit...
They glorified God in Saul, ascribing the change entirely to the grace of God working on his heart....
REPUDIATION OF CORRUPT MOTIVES. EVIDENCE FROM PAUL'S PERSONAL HISTORY THAT HIS CONVERSION WAS DUE TO GOD, AND THAT HE WAS TAUGHT THE GOSPEL BY GOD INDEPENDENTLY OF THE TWELVE AND OF JERUSALEM....
FROM CHRIST, NOT FROM MEN Galatians 1:18 Paul's first visit to Peter must have been of absorbing interest. Doubtless the two traversed together the holy scenes of the Lord's ministry, and Peter told...
In the beginning of most of his epistles Paul definitely declares his apostleship. In this instance, in a parenthesis, he defends that declaration more emphatically than in any other introduction. The...
(13) For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: (14) And profited in the Jews' religion above many...
REFLECTIONS SWEET testimony to my Lord in the account here given by his servant, of his call to the Apostleship! No man could commission to the office, Paul knew. And it was Paul's joy to consider, th...
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...
24._And they glorified God in me _(37) This was an evident proof that his ministry was approved by all the churches of Judea, and approved in such a manner, that they broke out into admiration and pra...
The epistle to the Galatians sets before us the great source of the afflictions and conflicts of the apostle in the regions where he had preached the glad tidings; that which was at the same time the...
AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME. Or "for me"; on his account; for the wonderful grace bestowed on him and wrought in him; for the surprising change that was made in him, that of a persecutor he should be...
And they glorified God in me. Ver. 24. _And they glorified God_] "Whoso offereth praise, he glorifieth me," Psalms 50:23. God accounts himself as it were to receive a new being, by those inward conce...
_Now the things which I write unto you_ With respect to all these circumstances of them; _I lie not_ As I affirm before God, who searcheth the heart, and from whom nothing is hid. _Afterward_ Departin...
GLORIFIED GOD IN ME; praised God for the change which he had wrought in me. When persecutors of Christ become his friends, and labor to promote the cause which before they sought to destroy, they stri...
AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME. Just how long Paul remained in Arabia cannot be ascertained; many commentators believe that his trip was only of short duration, his activity in Damascus occupying the gr...
Paul's visit to Jerusalem:...
INTRODUCTION: PAUL'S CREDENTIALS (vs.1-5) Paul writes as an apostle, a sent-one entrusted by God to carry an authoritative message to which Christians must fully bow. "Not from men" (v.1). No human i...
When they heard that he was now preaching the faith, they rejoiced. NOTE: "The faith" refers to the entire system of belief, including all things believed by the early Christians....
15-24 St. Paul was wonderfully brought to the knowledge and faith of Christ. All who are savingly converted, are called by the grace of God; their conversion is wrought by his power and grace working...
And they praised God on his behalf, for working so great a change in him....
and they glorified God in me. [The term "three years" may be taken to mean three full years, or one year and parts of two others. Assuming that Paul was converted in A. D. 37, the visit to Jerusalem t...
Galatians 1:24 And G2532 glorified G1392 (G5707) God G2316 in G1722 me G1698 Numbers 23
‘Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ, but they only heard say, ‘He who once persecuted us now preaches the...
THEY GLORIFIED (εδοξαζον). Imperfect, kept on doing it.IN ME (εν εμο). In my case as in Galatians 1:16....
Galatians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)_ Paul begins this Epistle by stating his commission as an apostl...
Galatians 1:11. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel that was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but the revelation of Jesus Christ. Fo...
CONTENTS: The Gospel Paul preached, a revelation not tradition. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Peter, James. CONCLUSION: The Gospel declared by the apostles was by revelation of Jesus Christ. It is...
Galatians 1:1. _Paul an apostle, not of men, neither by man._ Paul was not a member of the church of the firstborn, suckled with her breasts, and edified by her ministry. Christ had specially appeared...
AND SO THEY PRAISED GOD. This shows they accepted Paul's conversion to Christ as genuine!!! This contrasts with the attitude of the _circumcision party!_...
_And they glorified God in me._ GOD’S GLORY IN THE SOUL I. In the act of conversion God is glorified. It is strange how many misapplications of this word “conversion” prevail in the world and the Chu...
SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS The Galatians were Gentiles who emigrated from Gaul into Greece, and so were called Gallo-Greeks. Suidas thinks that these Gauls were Sennon...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 1:24. THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME.—He does not say, adds Chrysostom, they marvelled at me, they praised me, they were struck with admiration of me, but he attr...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 1:1 _The_ _introductory greeting. _The style of this greeting, compared with those found in St. Paul's other Epistles, gives indications of his having addressed himself to the co...
Galatia was not a city. It was a territory. It encompassed an area that is now in Turkey. There were several churches founded by Paul in Galatia. And following Paul's evangelistic efforts through the...
2 Corinthians 9:13; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:12; Acts 11:18;...
In me. The sense is different from that in verse 16, see note. Here the meaning is that they glorified God as the author and source of what they saw in me....
TURNING FROM GRACE Galatians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our study of today carries us into some very vital relationships relative to salvation. We are all willing to grant that works hold a vital place...
In me — That is, on my account....