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Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Who did bewitch you? (τις υμας εβασκανεν?). Somebody "fascinated" you. Some aggressive Judaizer (5:7), some one man (or woman). Fi…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
O foolish Galatians. A remonstrance is here interwoven—I should rather say, inserted—among his doctrinal statements. Some will wonder that…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O foolish Galatians Referring not to any national character, as some have thought, by which they were distinguished from …
Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. They had experienced the preaching of the doctrine of the cross and the administrat…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle rebuked the Galatians for their vanity and fickleness by the authority of the gospel’s teaching, showing that his doctrine …
