PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians
Edgar Huxtable [1810-1897] · 361,419 words · 379 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 121
"Yon Cephas," he says, "e.nd I were living been led to think thus t1nd to act thus; in e.s do the Jews ; no unclean sinners of other words, by Christ himself. Would it Gentiles were we 1 And both you e.nd I not, then, follow the.t Christ WB8 a ministor have been me.de righteous. And how? to them, not of righteousnes…
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-yJvo1To ). "Abhorred be the thought I" we marked by the emphatic l"Yw with which ii both say; but (the apostle means his inter- opens. locutor to underst.and) since it cannot Ver. 19.-l!'or I through the Law am dead without horrid impiety be so.id that Christ to the Law (l"/@ "/Cl.p B,o. v&µov v&µq, a.'11'10avov); …
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tion mth it,-the Law ih!elf will have it so. death?"-" thnt our old man Wl\s orucill.cd "But (the apostle's feeliug is) tho Lo.w may with hi~?" It ~me h,Y believing iu Obrist curse on as it will: I have life with God :'.1:'d bemg hapt1zed mto him; comp. oh. and in God nevertheless." This same 111. 27, "All ye who we…
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uenBl with him, well-nigh to wreck the gram- (2 Cor. v. 7). I live by the faith of the Bon mnticl\l couetmction. A method, indeed, of God (iv 1rf0'1'EI (w -rfi 'TOV vloii 1'0V 0,av); ho.e been proposed by critics of dispoeing 1 live by faith, the faith which is in the S011. this clo.uee with reepcct to the preceding in…
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himself," by its bringin~ more distinctly upon the npostle's own soul. But the logicnl into new the notion of Christ's giving him- connection of the following clo.use is more self over into the hands of those who sought ensily shown by our reverting to the sense his life. before given to the vorb, which in the New …
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or ten yea.re later the.n this Epistle, and to disregard; the Pharisees being repeatedly nrlclressed also in pa.rt to the so.me Go.le.tio.n so enraged at these trans,,.ressions of tbe Churohes; in whioh he not only weo.ves traditions e.s to endeavoulin consequence into his language not a few expressions o.nd to take ~i…
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unlnwful thing for a man that is " Jew to Law. Now, however, in Cornelius's house, join himself or to come unto one of another St. Peter does not allow his spirit to be 1mtion; and yet unto me hath God showed dominated by sentiments suoh as these. that I should not oa.11 any m1m common or God o.nd Christ his Mn.ster…
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aeain to Jerusalem with Ilarnabas, and took Titus with me also." 1. The period of this visit. It was fourteen years from the date of his conversion-not from the date of his former visit to Jerusalem-for he seems always to view his conversion as the true starting-point of his career. The word " again " does not determin…
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says, the Mme gospel on both occasions. Openly he expotmded it to the Christiim1!'T1t Jerusalem, but entered into its doctrinal aspects more deeply in private, III. THE AI'OSTLE's VICTORY. "Titus was not compelled to be circumcised," Greek though he w11s. 1. The l,a,ngua9e implies that efforts had- been made to this…
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He got nothing from them ; they added nothing to his knowledge of the gospel : he received no new instructions; they were perfectly independent one of another. They did not interfere with the course he had hitherto pursued, much less question its rightness. III. THE APOSTLES, ON THE CONTRARY, PRACTICALLY APPROVED ms C…
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II. !'- C~MMON AGREEMENT TO REMEMBER THEM. 1. It is agreeable to mark this unity of feeling in the midst if controversy. 2. There ouglit to be no division with regard to the poor. The dictates of humanity, the demands of duty, the claims of interest alike enforce a due consideration of the poor, but especially of tho…
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Mosaic Law was still in force. "Even Barnabas was also carried away with their dis- simulation." "Even Barnabas "-my fellow-labourer in missionary work," a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith," who once fought by my side the battle of Gentile liberty (Acts xv.), who had hazarded his life by my side (Acts x…
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(Tlom. iii. 19). The charge is abundantly proved, and the sentence has gone forth: " Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the Law to do them " (eh. iii. 10), II. THE NATURE OF JUSTIFIOATION. "Knowing that a man is not justified by the ~·orks of the Law, but by the faith of Ch…
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but of dobt (Rom, xi 6), (a) It would give room for boasting, which is excluded by the law of faith (Rom, iii. 27). 2. Our justification is by the faith of Ghrist. There are two f~ts here set forth-faith ancl the object of faith. 'fhe faith that jnstifies is distinguished by its object, Jesus Christ. The two preposi…
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Gentile at. the first point of contact between the soul and the Saviour. They a.re alike guilty before God. 2. They look for justification, only in Christ. 'l'hey are pronounced just by God because they are in Christ. 3. Because the Jewish Christians, in renounc- ing the Law, redu~d themselves to the level of sinner…
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himself. "Yot not I." We are by natnre "dead " (Epb. ii. 1), nnd cannot quicken ourselves. Our life ie no natural principle. Neither can we sustain this life nor prolong its existence. This fact explains at once the backslidings, the fears and the unfruitfulneBB of believers. 3. Ohristis the very life of the soul. "Chr…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-10.-TM apostolic conference. Fourteen years elapsed between the first and second visits of Paul as apostle to Jerusalem. During this interval of severe work he had experienced the opposition of the Judaizers. He deemed it advisable, therefore, and was also impelled by the Spirit…
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clearly in vii,w.. , It would be well if we had always so clear a view of the interests of truth in our contentions with others. It is to be feared we sometime~ fight for our consistency a~d personal interests rather than for the gospel. We should suspect our motives until we see the gospel's interests clearly invol…
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come down to see the work of God among the Gentiles. In his Iarge-henrtedness he had not only approved of it and rejoiced in it, but, laying aside all his Jewish prejudices, he hnd taken his seat at the table of the Gentiles, and had eaten whatever was placed b~fore him. But certain " false l,rethren" having come ro…
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for refnge to Jesus as our Hope, we tum round like Peter to rebuild the edifice of self- righteousness and legalism, we are simply making ourselves transgressors. We are forfeiting our liberty and piling up fresh sin. Hence it is of the utmost moment that we should clearly and constantly recognize the sinfulness of the…
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Vers. 1-10.-Period of third visit to Jerusalem. 'l'hree· preliminary points a.r!) mentioned. (1) Time. "Then after the space of fourteen years I went up a.gain to· Jerusalem." It is possible to date this from his conversion, but it is m9re Iiatura.l and quite tenable to date it from the last-mentioned visit. If so, …
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nice points, coul<l be gone into with them that could not BO s11ifa.bly be gone into at a pu,bhc confe~ence. 'l'hey were, moreover, men of repute, men of leading, who might oe expected to mfluence the others. If, then, he secured a good understandino- with them, his course, both what it hnd been :ind what it might y…
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God proceeds in his choice or acknowledgment of instruments, And with nll their reputation they imparted to him no additional authority or element in teaching, ns superiors to ~n. inferior. 2. They recognized him. .A.s havin_q an independent trust, "But contrar1w1se, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the …
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request was remembering the poor. It was a request that came very naturally from the three, 'They wero counected with a poor Church. Intolerance, too, was more rife and keen in Palestine than elsewhere. And it would often be a perplexity to them- taking them to the throne of grace-how the poor under their charge were t…
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be surprised at his being suddenly swayed from a noble course. It was of a piece with his nobly de.ring to walk on the water toward Christ, and then, when he looked on the trou~led ~at.er, cr~ng out in fear," Lord, save me; I perish.'' It '!as of a piece with his drawmg lns sword m defence of his Master, and then, w…
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of the Law shall no flesh be justified." Three times is the word" justified" used here, three .times a.re the works of the Law disclaimed as the ground of justification, and thre,e times are we se.id to be justified by faith in Christ, Paul proceeds on the fact that they (and he includes himself) were Jews. The Gentile…
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rrcsented himself alive after his crucifixion. "I am he that liveth 1 and was dead." This representation repeats the contrast in us. Nay, our crucifixion is carried down eo that not in successive moments but in the same moment we share with Christ in his crucifixion and in his resurrection. (2) Himself, and yet not …
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thnt we are in tho right work. What is the best work for one ma.n may be very unsnitnble for another. We ehsll fail if we slavishly copy the most successful servants of Christ in II line that may not be ours. Butler could not organize a revival; nor coulu Wesley confute deism. We may be discouraged needlessly at our fa…
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Ver. 16.-Justification by faith. These words contain the pith and kernel of the Epistle. Occurring in historical narration, they strike the key-note of what is i:ather an expostulation and appeal to previous convictions than an original, calm argument, such as is the treatment of the same subject in the Epistle to t…
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f11oith, but through faith. Faith is not, taken as itself, a. virtue serving just as works of Law were supposed to serve. The one ground of forgiveness and renewal is the grace of God in Obrist. Faith is the means of securing this, because it unites us to Christ. 2. This faith is in Ghrist, not in a creed. We may cast …
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have _b:en c~ucified re_Presentatively in him. The passionate earnestness of St. Paul in ?escri_bmg his ~w:n spiritual renewal goes far beyond a?Y. such shallow conception. He 1s plarnly descnbmg what he really endure<l. (1) This 1s death. The old life is killed out. The passions, lusts, habits, and associations of …
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EXPOSITION. recent days derive it from fJ6,(.,, {Jda,co,, OHA.1:''l'Jm m. speak ; as if it were '' to bespeak a Ver. 1.-0 foolish Galatians (.?. liv61) ..o, man." The nouns {Jda,c"vor, {J<&ll',cavla, r'"d'Ta,). In thus apostrophizing them, the following the senses of the verb, express apostle brands their present be…
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understand the apostle es here asking, been acting under some binding spell? "Whose ill-natured jealousy was it that Surely such folly is well-nigh inconceivable did light upon you?" end o.s intending to with men in free possession of their own convey these two ideas : (1) the envy of souls." But (1) each of these t…
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writing, there being no to.blet (eo to epeo.k) that idee. upon thei-r souls. What envier nr suggested on which the writing could be their happiness in him conk], then, possibly oonceived of ne clone. rp&,p.,, it ie trne, be.ve torn them from him, This so.me mee.ne "doscribe" in John i. 45 and Rom. portraiture of " C…
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,m1y 10011ld I learn from you. I need Rsk the illustration which in ver. 6 the apostle for nothing more to show thRt the LRw is gives of the phrase as introduced by him uotbing to yon, thRn thRt you should tell ngain in ver. 5. me this. Reoeived ye the Spirit by the Ver. 3.-Are ye so foolish I having begun works of…
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,l1Cij ; •1"t• Heil •l1eij) ; did ye suffwr all those he further ge.thered from eh. v. 11 ; vi. 12 trouble, for 11011,ght 1 if indeed really for (on which see Exposition). Those Jewish nought. The nmbiguity of ToO'civT<i, which lege.liats hated both St. Paul and his con- menns either "so many" or "so great," is verts, …
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'Vel'. ~.-He therefore that minietereth to d,toijt 1rltrnwr;) in ooMeqUence of tcor1,s of yon the Spi.iit, and worketh miraoles among the Law or of the hearing of faith 1 With the yon ( d oil,, l1r1xaprryfii11 {)µ,v ...~ nv,vµa, K<Zl eparingnese of words nbove noted the npoetle '"'Pi'"'" liu,,tf,u«s '" oµi'v); he th…
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unto him /01' rigltLP01tsnes8, The answer to WOTds: "Now it was not written for liis the question in the foregoing V81'Se is so sake alone that it was reckoned to him [for obvious that the apostle goes on as if that righteousness]; but for our sake also, unto answer hod been given, namely, that it was whom it shall be…
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2 C<>r. -..i. JG). nnd diffused his gifts among who "were of the works of the Le.w" the its membe1·s diversely and to all appearance possession at all of Abrahe.mio privilege. 10diseriminl\tely (1 Cor.xii.13); stall events The cla.ss, "men of faith," did in fe.ot not in such wise discriminately as that include Jewis…
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oases tho "Scripture" is put in place of has Kal lv,v)\.O"Y1J8ficrov-ra, ~v o-ol ,racra, al cpv)\./i, the nnnounccmant which !:icriptura records .,-ij, -yijs: in our Authorized Version,"And in ns ha.ving been made, the Scripture itself thee shall a1l families [Hebrew, mishpeclwth] being written o.ftor the time of both …
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to come; it reC1eives its consummation with Acts x. 45; 2 Cor. vi. 15; Eph. i. 1 ; 1 Tim, the fin&l uttemnce, " Come, ye blessed iv. 10; v. 16; vi. 2 (so in li,r,,r-ror, John n. (,11:>..0')'111J-'vo,) of my Father, inherit the 27; .l:>..,-y,/1r,cr-ror, Matt. vi. 30). In conse- kingdom prepared for )'OU from the foun…
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they u.re in u. eb.te of elu.vory, tha.t the die- must needs be in bondage to. Most com- penea.tion they ore under ie spiritually a.n mentators, however, understand ica-r&pa as enela.ving one, 11, yoke of bondage (oh. iii. meaning, not '' omsing" or uttering general 24 ; iv. 1-3, 9, 21, 31 ; v. 1, 13). In the sentences…
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direct, of Christ's gospel, that we find it ~ight worship him acceptably, nnd hold hard to realize to our minds tbnt there ever Joyful communion with him (say) in the 1>xisted a posture of the spirit nnswering to Lord's Supper, though he had just before such a notion, or. if such did exist, that it been handling a c…
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pare the use of the same preposition: Rom. This is plainly the view of the pas~ago ii. 12, "As many e.s have sinned under which is taken by the Pauline writer of tl e [Greek, 'in'] the Law ; " iii. 19, "It saith Hebrews in x. 38. to them thu.t a.re under [Greek, 'in'] the Ver. 12.-And the Law is not ot faith(<> Lu.w.''…
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nceq,tnnce by a meritorious life, had con- compounded verb a-yopd(.,, buy, is found fom:illy to be tnrnin~ his eye, slansbly and with reference to Christ's denth in 1 Oor. under fear of the "curse" in case of failure, vi. 20 and vii. 23, "Ye were bought with n fowards an external Law, whose detail of price;" 2 Pet. i…
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oumte; for the phrase, "curse of God," Is The passage before us illustrates the mean- probo.bly a strongly intensive form of ex- ing of ~he words in eh. ii. 19, "I through th,, preeeion,"like'" wrestlinge of God," in Gen. Law died unto the Law: " be felt himself xxx. 8 (" great wreetlings," Authorized disconnected f…
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however, to be without Law unto God; XpuM'cp); that upon "t11e ,uition," migl,t. only, the Law they are now under is a come the blessing of Abraham in Christ spiritual Law, one conformable to the Je-JJus. The phrase, ,ls .,.a (61171 ••• -yl,,,,n,, n11.ture of that dispensation of life and of is illustrated by the use o…
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not there; for more.I beings, forming a The apostle's meaning Is that, If even men people of God's, must be under some Law; are constrained by their sense of justice t and, If there w11s not o. fow written on the abide by this rule, much more may the All• "fleshy tables of the heart" by God's Spirit, rlghteoUB One be e…
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ma.de a.oovenant wit.h Abmm, saying, Unto one ooutemplated by the Almighty ae dee- thy seed have I gi rnn this land," etc. ; but tine~ to _in~cri~ the promise. This principle most particularly, since on this oooasion of dtscrimme.tion among several lines of circumcision was appointed e.s the "sign of descendants he …
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u.fflxing to the pu.seage or passages of the toforo promised tQ be reci 1,icnt of Di vino Old Tesf.ament which he refers to, the sense blessing: those, feeble trpcs of her, fade thnt he does; both 88 to the import of the away e.t her coming, their glory and very gift which the covenant guaranteed to being absorbed in h…
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• Bell. Jud.,' v. 9, 4), Josephus speaks of the be their God, e.nd that they should recognize e.ffliction in Egypt as lasting "four hundred him as such. yenrs; " probe.bly following in this compu- Ver. 18.-For if the inherite.noe be of the tation lhe period mentioned in the Divine Le.w, it is no more of promise ( ,I…
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it wae yet not intended to supersede the of him who arranged it all, that the Law previously ratified covenant, but rather to should lost only BO long, and was to come prepare for its being completely carried out. to an end when the seed came. To whom It was added beoa.nse of transgressions (Tfiw the promise was made (…
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Spirit of God promised by him to his people Father as well a1 our own spiritual and upon their restoration from Captivity, de- eternal life. tected the pa.rtioular fact here indicated in Ver. 20.-This verse, closing the short Dent. nxiii. 2; Ps. lxviii. 17; Exod. xix. pamgraph commencing the verse which 16, 19. The…
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Fo.thel' o.nd the Son. God is one. In the unquestion>tble revele.tion of his I l!'or if ,i'o.ther •e.nd, tin his Son- Christ our Lord. there he.d been e. Le.w given which oould 'I'he fo.ct is now present to the apostle's have given life (El -yltp ,6&871 voµbs b liuvtf- mind, o.nd is 'presently after stnted by him µ,…
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not to the sinner's spirit, but to his sin "shut up," both AS present and as prospe~ (Rom. vii. 9), in!-c'.1sifying its malignity and tive, in Rom. xi. ~2, " God hath shut up all working death (1b1d., vers. 10-13). These men unto disobedience (a-v,l1e>.<1,r,, d 81b1 views, so explicitly expressed by the apostle 'TOO…
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ture," 11,9 well o.8 the condition of comparative 1<J\«11µlvo1), which may have given it vogue. helple8ane9a and condemnation, under which The perfect participle seems alone suitable those subject to the Law were detllined. to the passage, q.d. shut up for good and The participle ,,..,, ,r&<TT<vov,n is either a all. Th…
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as the masruline of" goveme.es," comee per- end with hie takiri~ him to school, but oon• h11,ps ne&rest ; but ll tutor to a gentleman'e tinued on throughout his non-age ; (2) the children is genemlly an ednooted man, and function of Christ is not viewed here nil oft"'n of like rank in lifo with those he is instrueti…
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OhriBt Jesus. "For;" thnt iA, what is juet present life ie concerned, or the position nllirmed (vcr. 25) ie true, because ye ere which their birth had entitled them to; and " sane" nnd no longer " children." " Ye that it stands in contrast with their earlier arc;" in ver. 25 it ie "we nre." The whole position when chil…
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coted in the su hBequent clause is predi- instnnce of this, his e.pplioation of the words cated of every individual belonging to the (,cowowltL, 1<01vowds), "communion" "having class defined in this. It may be paraphrased communion," in 1 Cor, x. 16-20 (Revised thus_: As_ surely ~ ever e.ny one of you was Version); in …
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proposition in tho phrase, " baplize into the put forth his hand to lay hold of the Namo of Obrist," in a lower ancl Iese deter- righteousness which is by faith, became in• minate sense-either ae "unto," " with vested with this particular form of " right. reference to," or, which seems more probable, eoueneee," name Iy…
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