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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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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:4
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:4
Did ye suffer? (επαθετε?). Second aorist active indicative of πασχω, to experience good or ill. But alone, as here, it often means…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:4
19th Century
Bishop
Suffered so many things.—The Galatians, like other churches, were subjected to much persecution when they first embraced Christian…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:1–5
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:4
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…
John Calvin
On Galatians 3:4
16th Century
Theologian
Have ye suffered so many things? This is another argument.
Having suffered so many things on behalf of the gospel, would they now, …
John Gill
On Galatians 3:4
17th Century
Pastor
Have you suffered so many things in vain ?
&c.] These Galatians had suffered great reproach, many afflictions and pe…
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…