Your enemy (εχθρος υμων). Active sense of εχθρος, hater with objective genitive. They looked on Paul now as an enemy to them. So t…

Am I therefore become your enemy, etc.? Is my telling you the truth regarding the tendency of the doctrines you have embraced, the charact…

Your enemy.—“The enemy” was the name by which Saint Paul was commonly referred to by the party hostile to him in the next century.…

For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become…

In spite of their initial attitude toward Paul, their opinion of him had changed. The joy (lit., “blessedness,” GK 3422) they experienced as a resu…

Am I therefore become your enemy? He now returns to speak about himself. It was entirely their own fault, he says, that they had changed t…

Am I therefore become your enemy
Not that he was an enemy to them, he had the same cordial affection for them as eve…

The apostle desires that they would be of one mind with him regarding the law of Moses, as well as united with him in love. In reproving others, we…