Galatians 1:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 1:6-9

Galatians 1:6-9. I marvel that ye are so soon After my leaving you; removed from him that called you into the grace Or rather, by, or through the grace; of Christ His gracious gospel, and his gracious power. God is generally said to call men into the grace of Christ, but the phraseology seems here to point out Paul, and not God, as the person spoken of. For as he wrote this chapter to prove himself an apostle, his success in calling the Galatians to the Christian faith was fitly... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Galatians 1:1-10

1:1-2:21 PAUL’S GOSPEL IS THE ONLY GOSPELRebuke to the Galatians (1:1-10)At the outset Paul reminds the Galatians that his call to be an apostle did not come from any human source or through any human agency. It came direct from God. The gospel that God called him to preach is the good news that by the grace of God and through the death of Christ, people can be saved from their sins (1:1-5).Paul is amazed and angered to hear that many of the Galatians are turning away from this, the only true... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 1:6

removed . Read "removing". Greek. metatithemi . The Mid. and Pass. with apo , mean "to desert". Him. i.e. God. Compare Romans 8:30 . 1Th 2:12 . 2 Thessalonians 2:14 . into . Greek. en . App-104 . Christ . App-98 . unto . Greek. eis . App-104 . another . Greek. heteros . App-124 . gospel . See App-140 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Galatians 1:6

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel.Hendriksen pointed out that it was Paul's manner to commend before he began to condemn";[17] but there is nothing like that here. In the very place where commendation was usually written, Paul thundered his indignant astonishment at a fully developed and continuing apostasy of his beloved converts among the Galatians. As Wesley said, "The Greek word here rendered marvel usually... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 1:6

Galatians 1:6.— We have before observed, that St. Paul's first endeavour in this epistle was to satisfy the Galatians, that the report spread of him, that he preached circumcision, was false. Till this obstruction which lay in his way was removed, it was to no purpose for him to go about to dissuade them from circumcision, though that be what he principallyaims at in this epistle. To shew them that he promoted not circumcision, he calls their hearkening to those who persuaded them to be... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Galatians 1:6

6. Without the usual expressions of thanksgiving for their faith, c., he vehemently plunges into his subject, zealous for "the glory" of God ( :-), which was being disparaged by the Galatians falling away from the pure Gospel of the "grace" of God. I marvel—implying that he had hoped better things from them, whence his sorrowful surprise at their turning out so different from his expectations. so soon—after my last visit when I hoped and thought you were untainted by the Judaizing teachers. If... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 1:1-10

I. INTRODUCTION 1:1-10The Apostle Paul began this epistle in an uncharacteristic way for him. After a customary salutation, he rebuked the Galatian Christians. Usually he began his epistles by commending his readers. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 1:6-7

In every other one of his canonical epistles Paul commended his readers before launching into the main subject of his letter regardless of his general purpose in writing. Here he recorded no such praise. Its absence stressed the seriousness of his readers’ error and the urgency of his appeal.The best evidence points to Paul’s writing Galatians before the Jerusalem Council, held in A.D. 49, and after he and Barnabas evangelized Asia Minor on their first missionary journey (Acts 13-14). I am... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 1:6-10

B. Denunciation 1:6-10In these opening words Paul rebuked his readers for turning away from the gospel that he had preached to them and for turning toward a different "gospel." He accused them of being religious turncoats. He did so to impress them with the great folly of their action. The fiery opening of this epistle presents it "like a lion turned loose in the arena of Christianity." [Note: Longenecker, p. lvii.] "The general proposition or causa of the letter is to persuade the Galatians to... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Galatians 1:6

1:6 change, (b-7) Or, possibly, 'are changed.' gospel, (c-19) Or 'glad tidings,' as elsewhere. read more

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