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Your Experience is the Proof
Paul poses a simple, rhetorical question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by following rules or by hearing and believing the gospel? Commentators agree this was a knockout argument. The Galatians' own undeniable experience of receiving the Spirit proved that their new life came from faith in Christ, not from observing the law.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:2
18th Century
Theologian
This only would I learn of you. I would ask this of you: still retaining the language of severe reproof. The design here, and in the follo…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:2
This only (τουτο μονον). Paul strikes at the heart of the problem. He will show their error by the point that the gifts of the Spi…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:2
19th Century
Bishop
This only.—The Apostle considers a single argument enough. He will only place the present conduct of the Galatians in con…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:1–2
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 3:2
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 3:2
16th Century
Theologian
This one I wish to learn from you. He now proceeds to support his cause by additional arguments. The first is drawn from their experience,…
John Gill
On Galatians 3:2
17th Century
Pastor
This one thing would I learn of you
Though there were many things he could have put to them, yet he would only ask t…
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…