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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:5

Verse 5 5.To whom be glory. By this sudden exclamation of thanksgiving, he intends to awaken powerfully in his readers the contemplation of that invaluable gift which they had received from God, and in this manner to prepare their minds more fully for receiving instruction. It must at the same time be viewed as a general exhortation. Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:6

Verse 6 6.I wonder. He commences by administering a rebuke, though a somewhat milder one than they deserved; but his greatest severity of language is directed, as we shall see, against the false apostles. He charges them with turning aside, not only from his gospel, but from Christ; for it was impossible for them to retain their attachment to Christ, without acknowledging that he has graciously delivered us from the bondage of the law. But such a belief cannot be reconciled with those notions... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:7

Verse 7 7.Which is not another thing (20) Some explain it thus, “though there is not another gospel;” as if it were a sort of correction of the Apostle’s language, to guard against the supposition that there were more gospels than one. So far as the explanation of the words is concerned, I take a more simple view of them; for he speaks contemptuously of the doctrine of the false apostles, as being nothing else than a mass of confusion and destruction. As if he had said, “What do those persons... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

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 composition of the letter under strong perturbation of feeling. This transpires in the abruptness with which, at the very outset, he at once sweeps aside, as it were, out of his path, a slur east upon his apostolic commission, in protesting that he was "apostle, not from man nor through a man." It appears again in that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

The gospel of self-sacrifice. In sending an Epistle to an apostate people, Paul does not indulge in unmeaning compliments. These Celts in Asia had been showing some of their proverbial fickleness, and going back from the doctrine of justification by faith to a ritualism whose development must be self-righteousness. It is needful for their recovery from apostasy that the authority of the apostle and the truth of the gospel should be put before them in unmistakable terms. Hence we find... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

Introduction. The tone of this Epistle is decidedly controversial. In the first and second chapters the writer establishes against Judaistic assailants his apostolic authority. This, however, is only subsidiary to his main design, which is in the third and fourth chapters, as an accredited servant of God, to establish the gospel of Christ, or justification by faith against Judaism (a different gospel), or justification by the works of the Law. The fifth and sixth chapters may be said to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:4-5

The sum and substance of the Epistle. He here declares the true ground of acceptance with God which the Galatians practically ignored by their system of legalism. I. MARK THE SELF - OBLATION OF CHRIST . "Who gave himself for our sins." Our Redeemer was not killed by the hand of violence, though "by lawless hands" he was crucified and slain; he spontaneously offered himself, and his offering was not the impulse of mere excited feeling. The expression, "gave himself," always... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:5

To whom be glory for ever and ever . Amen ( ὧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν ). This doxology is not introduced as merely a reverential closing up of the greeting, before the writer hastens on to the subsequent words of rebuke. It is rather an indignant tender of homage to the Most High, flashing forth from a loyal, filial heart; confronting and seeking, so far as it thus may, to redress the wrong done to "our God and Father" by the Judaizing spirit uprearing itself... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:6

It is unnecessary again to remark on the disturbance of mind indicated by the abruptness with which the apostle plunges into the language of reproof. It cannot fail to strike every careful reader. I marvel ( θαυμάζω ); I do marvel. The verb is used here with reference to something disappointing, something felt to be painful as well as strange. So Mark 6:6 with reference to the unbelief of the Nazarenes. It is unjust to the apostle to take this "I do marvel" of his as a mere artifice... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:6

The sad defection of the Galatians. The apostle enters at once upon the business in hand, and calls them to account for their incipient apostasy. I. MARK THE APOSTLE 'S SORROWFUL SURPRISE . "I marvel that ye are so quickly turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel." The Celtic heartiness with which they received him at the first, "as an angel of God, even as Christ," might well excite his wonder at their rapid defection. He understood... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 1:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 1:6

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