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The Placarded Christ
Commentators emphasize that Paul's preaching was so vivid it was as if Christ's crucifixion was publicly "placarded" or "painted" before the Galatians' eyes. The gospel message of salvation through Christ's death was made unmistakably clear. Their turning away was not due to a lack of information but a turning from a truth that had been powerfully presented.
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:1
18th Century
Theologian
GALATIANS CHAPTER III
The address of Paul to Peter, as I suppose, was closed at the last verse of chapter 2. The apostle in this chapter, in…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:1
Who did bewitch you? (τις υμας εβασκανεν?). Somebody "fascinated" you. Some aggressive Judaizer (5:7), some one man (or woman). Fi…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:1
19th Century
Bishop
Foolish.—The same word as that which is used in the phrase “O you fools and slow of heart” (Luke 24:25), and …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:1
19th Century
Preacher
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, c…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:1
This is the first time since 1:11 that Paul addresses the Galatians. Now it is by the impersonal term “Galatians” rather than by the word “brothers…
John Calvin
On Galatians 3:1
16th Century
Theologian
O foolish Galatians. A remonstrance is here interwoven—I should rather say, inserted—among his doctrinal statements. Some will wonder that…
John Gill
On Galatians 3:1
17th Century
Pastor
O foolish Galatians Referring not to any national character, as some have thought, by which they were distinguished from …
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 3:1–5
17th Century
Minister
Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. They had experienced the preaching of the doctrine of the cross and the administrat…