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Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
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Don't Waste Your Suffering
Paul makes an emotional appeal, reminding the Galatians of the persecutions they endured for believing in salvation by faith. Commentators explain that to now abandon this core truth for a system of works would render all their past sacrifices meaningless. Their suffering was for the true gospel, not the legalistic principles they were now adopting.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Have you suffered so many things in vain? Paul reminds them of what they had endured on account of their attachment to Christianity. He as…
Did ye suffer? (επαθετε?). Second aorist active indicative of πασχω, to experience good or ill. But alone, as here, it often means…
19th Century
Anglican
Suffered so many things.—The Galatians, like other churches, were subjected to much persecution when they first embraced Christian…
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Baptist
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governo…
There is some ambiguity in the question “Have you suffered so much for nothing?” It may imply actual suffering, as is suggested in NIV. Or it may r…
16th Century
Protestant
Have ye suffered so many things? This is another argument.
Having suffered so many things on behalf of the gospel, would they now, …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Have you suffered so many things in vain ? &c.] These Galatians had suffered great reproach, many afflictions and pe…
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…
