been truly impressed with the Gospel ; he now therefore says, ye have received, and by this expression there is an epitasis [em phatic addition, or augmentation of force] in the repetition.1 — si) if. This is more positive than tav [though it should happen that], ver. 8. — \>{LUC, tvayy&Jfyrai, furnish you with any other Gospel \_preach to you\ ) Here l^ac, is put before the verb svay- /gA/^gra/, though in the 8th verse v/tTv is put after ; this is for the sake of emphasis ; moreover we are not to suppose that there is no distinction intended in the different cases [y^Tv and y//,a>] : We have preached the Gospel to you, has the dative of advantage : To furnish any one [Accusative] with a Gospel, is fitted to direct a sneer against the false teachers' pretensions.
10. "Apr/ yap, for now) The reason why even now he writes with such asseverations : now is repeated from ver. 9. — av6pu>Kov$, men) This word is without the article, but presently after, rbv Qtbv, God, with the article. Regard is to be had to God alone. — TTg/tta) ITS idea nva, is much the same as the word ap'sffxu, which presently occurs, / seek to please any one : xsidziv nva, to obtain the consent or indulgence of any one. Plato de Leg. lib. 10, at the beginning; comp. 2 Cor. v. 11, note. — avfywcro/$, men) The antithesis is, of Christ. — en, yet) The meaning is, I have not heretofore sought, nor do I yet seek to please men ; comp. yet, ch. v. 11. The particles of the present time, apn, now, and in, yet, refute the words of him who troubled the Galatians. They here distinguish the present from the former time, not only when he was a Pharisee, but likewise when he \vas an apostle. As to the time when he was a Pharisee, Paul neither denies nor affirms in this passage. Paul not long before had circum cised Timothy for example. They wrere wishing to turn that circumstance as a conclusive argument against him with the Galatians. — dvdpu--oi$, ?nen) for the feelings of men are at variance with those of God and Christ ; hence, the evil of this present world, ver. 4. — ^peffKov, I pleased) apeaxu, I seek to please, Rom. viii. 8, note. A man generally either pleases or displeases him,
1 See Append, on Epitasis. In the first use of the words, ver. 8, " Though we, etc , preach any other Gospel," there do not occur the words " than that ye have received." The addition of these words, ver. 9, on the second use or repetition of the former words, constitutes the Epitasis. — Ki>.