Galatians 1:6

PART FIRST.

ST. PAUL’S HISTORY OF HIS APOSTLESHIP SUSTAINED, Galatians 1:6 to Galatians 2:21.

1. Points stated Paul’s apostleship, and Christ’s gospel of faith, Galatians 1:6-10.

6. I marvel Rather, admire; spoken usually of admirable objects of notice; hence a more delicate word than marvel or wonder, and yet slightly suggestive of sarcasm. It was a brilliant fickleness, perhaps, yet a sad one.

So soon He admires not only their recession from the cross to the circumcision, but also the unexpected promptness with which it has been accomplished. But from what point of time is so soon (or more literally, so quickly) to be calculated? If from the time of their first conversion, that was probably a period of about four years. More likely, however, St. Paul refers to the suddenness of their conversion. They fell so quickly before the first assault as to take him by surprise. He had not time to wait for a personal intervention, but must interpose by a letter.

Him that called you The reference of this him to Paul, who, as apostle, called them to Christ, makes a very pointed meaning. But assuming that Galatians and Romans were written about the same period, then Romans 9:11 indicates a reference to God. So Wesley, and also the best modern commentators.