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Comp. ch. ii. 21. Chrysostom says: “ He who is circum- cised is circumcised as fearing the law: but he who fears the law distrusts the power of grace; and he who distrusts gains nothing from that which he distrusts.”
3. Again (madd). Probably with reference to what he had said at his last visit.
Every man. Emphasising and particularising the general to you, you, in ver. 2.
A debtor (éferdrns). In N. T. mostly of one under moral obligation. So in the sense of sinner, Matt. vi. 12; L. xiii. 4. Comp. Rom. i. 14; viii. 12. Similarly the verb o¢e/rAew to owe, as L. xi. 4; xvii. 10; Rom. xv. 1, etc., though it is frequent in the literal sense.
To do the law (woiujoat). Rarein N. T. See J. vii. 19; Rom. ii. 18, 25 (apacons). Tnpetv to observe the law, the tradition, the commandment, Matt. xix. 17; Mk. vii. 9; J. xiv. 15; Acts xv. 5; Jas. ii. 10: adnpody to fulfil the law, Rom. xiii. 8; Gal. v.14; comp. avamdnpodr, Gal. vi. 2: gurdoocev to keep or guard the law, Acts vii. 58; xxi. 24; Gal. vi. 138: also with commandments, word of God or of Christ, ordinances of the law, Matt. xix. 20; Mk. x. 20; L. xi. 28; J. xii. 47; Rom. ii. 26. Tendetv to carry out the law, Rom. ii. 27; Jas. ii. 8. Toujoas is to perform what the law commands: typety to observe, keep an eye on with the result of performing: guvAdccev to guard against violation : tereiv to bring to fulfilment in action.
The whole law (6dov). Comp. Jas. ii. 10. Submission to circumcision commits one to the whole law. It makes him a party to the covenant of the law, and the law requires of every one thus committed a perfect fulfilment, Gal. iii. 10.
4. Christ is become of no effect unto you (catnpynOnre amo Xpictov). Incorrect. Lit. ye were brought to nought from
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Christ. Comp. Rom. vii. 2,6. Your union with Christ is dissolved. ‘The statement is compressed and requires to be filled out. “Ye were brought to nought and so separated from Christ.” For similar instances see Rom. ix. 8; xi. 3. The azo from properly belongs to the supplied verb of separ- ation. For the verb catapyeiv see on Rom. iii. 3.
Ye are fallen from grace (ris yadpitos éferdcate). For a similar phrase see 2 Pet. iii. 17. Having put yourselves under the economy of salvation by law, you have fallen out of the economy of salvation by the grace of Christ. Paul’s declarations are aimed at the Judaisers, who taught that the Christian economy was to be joined with the legal. His point is that the two are mutually exclusive. Comp. Rom. iv. 4,5, 14,16. The verb éxrimrev to fall out, in the literal sense, Acts xli. 7; Jas.i. 11. In Class. of seamen thrown ashore, banishment, deprivation of an office, degeneration, of actors being hissed off the stage.
5. For we (jets yap). Tap for introduces a proof of the preceding statement, by declaring the contrary attitude of those who continue under the economy of grace. Ye who seek to be justified by the law are fallen from grace; for we, not relying on the law, by faith wait for the hope of right- eousness.
Through the Spirit (wvedmart). The Holy Spirit who inspires our faith. Not as Lightfoot, spiritually. The words mvevpatl ek TicTews are not to be taken as one conception, the Spirit which is of faith, but present two distinct and coér- dinate facts which characterise the waiting for the hope of righteousness; namely, the agency of the Holy Spirit, in con- trast with the flesh (comp. Rom. vii. 6; viii. 4, 15,16; Eph. 1.13; ii. 22), and faith in contrast with the works of the law (comp. ch. iii. 8, and see ch. ii. 16; iii. 8; Rom. i. 17; iii. mais ik, Ov) 3°, ©).