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of all is intimately connected with the resurrection of Christ. Comp. Acts iv. 2, xxiii. 6, xxvi. 23. Artemonius conjectures that the reading should be eg dvaffrdffeug lx vexpuv. Part I., cap. 41, p. 214, etc., and this is his construction of the passage: m pi [ver. 3] s gat/a crd <reug lx vsxpuv rov uiov alrou x.r.X. concerning the re- surrection of His Son from the dead , etc. But, I. There is a manifest Apposition, concerning His Son , Jesus Christ ; therefore, the words, which come between parenthetically, are all construed in an unbroken connection with one another. II. There is an obvious antithesis: TOT ysvo^svov EK KATA: TOT 6 pnrOlvrog — KATA — EE. — III. dvuffrotcfic, not s gam<rra<;/c, if we are to have regard to Paul’s style, is properly applied to Christ ; but eg a- avuffraaig to Christians ; Comp, ijyeips, l^syspsT, 1 Cor. vi. 14. Ar- temonius objects that Christ was even previously the Son of God, Luke iii. 22 ; John x. 36 ; Acts ii. 22, x. 38. We answer, Paul does not infer the Sonship itself, but the opurpbv, the [decla- ration] definitive marking of the Sonship by the resurrection. And in support of this point, Chrysostom compares with this the following passages : John ii. 19, viii. 28 ; Matt. xii. 39 ; and the preaching of the apostles follows close upon this hpus^i v, Luke xxiv. 47. Therefore, this mode of mentioning the resur- rection is exceedingly well adapted to this introduction, as Gal. i. 1.
5. A/’ ol, hy whom), by J esus Christ our Lord. — lXd(3o/xzv, we have received ), we, the other apostles and I. — yd ptv xai dvotfroXYiv, grace and the apostolic mission) These two things are quite distinct, but very closely connected. Grace , nay, a singular measure of grace, fell to the lot of the apostles , and from it, not only their whole mission, Eph. iii. 2, but also all their actions proceeded, Rom. xii. 3, xv. 15, 16, 18. The word dvoffroXij occurs in this sense in Acts i. 25. With the lxx. it signifies, sending away , a gift sent , etc. Obedience to the faith corresponds to grace and apostleship. — eig i/Kaxoriv ‘xianuc, for obedience to the faith), that all nations may become and continue submissively obedient to the word of faith and doctrine concerning Jesus (Acts vi. 7), and may therefore render the obedience, which consists in faith itself. From its relation to the Gospel, the nature of this obedience is evident, ch. x. 16, xvi. 26 ; 1 Peter i. 2 : and vvaxori, obedience, is dxoij Ivoray^g, hearing with submission , ch. x. 3, at the close of
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