A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 • SECTION 16

Chapter Iii.

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law,1 is used, in speaking of faith. — amQavov, Iva QI& ^ffw) Rom. vii. 4, 6, note.

20. Zvvsffrabpupui, I am crucified with) Death is included in the cross, as is evident from the antithesis, I live ; comp. Phil, ii. 8. On communion with the same ; Phil. iii. 10. — £w &, nevertheless I live) after that death. — ovx en lyw) [Engl. Vers., yet not 7.] No longer /, as a Jew : Col. iii. 11.

21. Ovx afaroJ, I do not frustrate) As the Judaizing teachers do, but embrace it with my whole soul. — rqv %apiv rou Qsov, the grace of God) by which Christ died for us. — s/ yap, for if) Christ is our righteousness in Himself; not in so far as [inas much as] He fulfils the righteousness of the law in us. This is evident from the consequence which Paul here shows would follow, if the case were otherwise. — dwefavw, He died) and so rose again. There \vould have been no need of these, if right eousness had been from the law.

1. rn, 0) He abruptly attacks the Galatians. — a foolish Galatians) inasmuch as not having followed up, and held fast, a subject which had been most distinctly set before them, ver. 3. He does not call them aya^ro-j^ beloved, because they were not to be loved, but to be reproved ; although He really loved them. — l/Satfjtavg, bewitched) [that is, produced in you a change so sudden, and at the same time so very great. — V. g.] What follows more closely agrees with this word, if the phrase, not to obey the truth, were to be laid aside ; 2 for the eyes are so

1 Referring to the law of works. — ED.

2 The margin of both Ed. with the concurrence of the Germ. Vers. implies that it should be laid aside. — E. B.

ABD corrected later (A), Gfg Vulg. (many MSS., but Cod. Amiat. the best, has"veritati non obedire") omit rJj A^deief, ^ vsifaffOcu. Rec. Text with C retains the words. Jerome 7,418c writes, " Legitur in quibusdam codicibus, l Quis vos fascinavit non credere veritati.' Sed hoc, quia in exem- plaribus Adamantii non habetur, omisimus ;" and 7,487a, "licet et Gneca exemplaria hoc errore confusa sint."~ ED.

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