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and there isn`t another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
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A Counterfeit, Not a Choice
Scholars unanimously agree that when Paul says the new teaching "is not another" gospel, he is making a crucial clarification. The false teaching is not a valid alternative or a different style of Christianity. It is a complete counterfeit, a different system altogether that doesn't deserve the name "gospel" because it replaces the good news of grace with the burden of works.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Which is not another. There is also a great variety of views in regard to the meaning of this expression. Tindal translates it, "Which is …
Which is not another (ο ουκ εστιν αλλο). It is no "gospel" (good news) at all, but a yoke of bondage to the law and the abolition …
19th Century
Anglican
But there are some.—The force of the Greek conjunction is, rather, except that, as the word “only” is used idiomatically …
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Paul now wants to explain or correct his phrase, “a different gospel.” If left without any comment, that phrase might suggest that there are variou…
16th Century
Protestant
Which is not another thing. Some explain it this way: “though there is not another gospel;” as if it were a sort of correction of the Apos…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Which is not another It is no Gospel, no joyful sound, no good news, and glad tidings; the doctrine which attributes…
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Those who would establish any other way to heaven than what the gospel of Christ reveals will find themselves grievously mistaken. The apostle impr…
13th Century
Catholic
After the greeting, the message of the epistle follows. In it, the Apostle refutes their error and then admonishes them for their correction: S…
