Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 4:15-16

"Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?" — Galatians 4:15-16 (ASV)

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 your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Ah! There are many who have incurred enmity through speaking the gospel very plainly. For the natural human tendency is towards ceremony, towards some form of legal righteousness. People feel they must have something aesthetic, something that delights their sensuous nature, something they can see and hear, to mix that up with the simplicity of faith. Paul was as clear as noonday against everything of that kind, and so the Galatians eventually became angry with him. Well, he could not help that, but it did grieve him.