the grace] Acts xv. 11. — Xp/tfrod, of Christ) The construction is with d^ro from.1)
7. 'O, which) This word relates to ^e Gospel, not to the words a different gospel — ou/t j<rr/i/ aXXo, is wo£ another) «XXo [aliud] rm- o£/i0»' differs from srs/w, [alterum] a second and different.2 Paul not merely rejects that so-called Gospel, which the Galatians had allowed to be thrust upon them, but any other whatever.— r/vsj, some) unhappy persons, ver. 8, ch. v. 10, 12.— rapdtffovreg, that trouble) ch. v. 10.— llXovrsf, wishing) They really were not able, but yet they were earnestly wishing to do it. Paul often glances at the Galatians and their seducers by this expression ; ch. iv. 9, 17,21, vi. 12, 13. So Col. ii. ' 18.— ^r
isn is frequently translated by this word. — TO XpiGTov, the Gospel of Christ.) Those, who troubled them, did not quite deny Jesus Christ ; but Paul acknowledges nothing but the pure Gospel.
8. 'll/xs/Y) We, many as we are, ver. 2. — 5j ciy-yeXos l^ ovpavov, or an angel from heaven) whose authority, with the exception of God and Christ, is the highest, ch. iv. 14. — o svrlyye'kiffdfjt,eQa, which we have preached) This proves the apostolic infallibility. — avdfapaj let him be [accursed] anathema) Deprived of all part in Christ and God. The antithesis is at vi. 16. — sWw, let him be) Controversies not only cannot, but not even ought to be carried on without strong feeling ; but that strong feeling ought to be holy feeling.
9. 'nc, as) He speaks deliberately. He seems to have paused between the writing of each verse. A similar asseveration is repeated, ch. v. 2, 3, 21. — ffpoeipyjxaf&ev, ice said before) In the plural : for in ver. 8 he wrote we have preached, also in the plural. — Xs/w, / say) in the singular. All knew the truth of the Gospel ; Paul knew that the minds of the Galatians had
1 This word XPHJTOV itself, although it is not considered as a reading fully established by the margin of both Ed., is, however, expressed in the Germ. Ver.— E. B.
Gff Cypr. Lucif. omit Xpurrov. But ABIID [adding 'I^oS with/] Vulg. support it ; — TOV x.ex.'hiaoivrog agreeing with yLpiarov, and both governed by dTro ; but Engl. Vers. and Vulg. make Xpiarov be governed by %«(o/r;.— ED.
2 aAAo?, one of many; erepos, one of two. Diversity is more strongly ex pressed in trtpog than ^'AAo? ED.