Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 3:4

"Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain." — Galatians 3:4 (ASV)

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it is still in vain.

Have you been made to suffer through conviction of sin? Have you even been persecuted for the truth's sake? And are you going to give it up after all that?

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it is yet in vain.

This is another pertinent question.

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

You had to struggle and endure much contention within your own spirit to stand on the ground of faith at all; are you going to throw all that away? Is all the experience of your past life to go for nothing, and are you now going to begin on a lower and baser platform?