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I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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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
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,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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
Having given his rebuke, the Apostle goes on to show the insufficiency of the Law and the power of faith.
First, he proves the insufficiency…
