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A Warning in Animal Terms
Paul uses the graphic language of wild animals—"biting and devouring"—to describe internal church conflict. Commentators explain this isn't just disagreement, but destructive behaviors like slander, malice, and factionalism. The imagery is a stark warning against Christians treating each other like prey instead of family.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 5:15
18th Century
Theologian
But if ye bite. The word here used daknw means, properly, to bite, to sting; and here seems to be used in the sense of contending…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 5:15
If ye bite and devour one another (ε αλληλους δακνετε κα κατεσθιετε). Condition of first class assumed as true. Two common and old…
Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 5:15
19th Century
Preacher
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed one of another.
When dogs and wolves bite one another, …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 5:15
It is not hard to imagine the kind of strife that may have been present in the Galatian churches, either strife parallel to that of the Corinthians…
John Calvin
On Galatians 5:15
16th Century
Theologian
But if you bite and devour one another. From the nature of the subject, as well as from the language used, we may conjecture that the Gala…
John Gill
On Galatians 5:15
17th Century
Pastor
But if you bite and devour one another
Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of …
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 5:13–15
17th Century
Minister
The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness (1 Timothy 6:3), and is so far from giving the least approval to sin, that it places us…