powers) miraculous. — Ig, by) Supply, did He it. — Ig vfareus, by the hearing of faith) This expression along with the following verse constitutes the proposition, and in xa8u$, even as, assumes the force of an affirmative.
6. 'ABpaafA, Abraham) See Eom. iv. 3, note. The genealogy [pedigree] — the armoury of Paul, ver. 6, 8, 16; ch. iv. 22 ; for we must have recourse to our origin [the first beginnings of things], Matt. xix. 4.
7. Tivwffxere, know ye) The imperative; comp. 2 Tim. iii. 1. Neither the slowTiiess of the Galatians nor the commencement of the discussion admitted of an indicative. — o'i IK ^fareus, those ivho are of faith) For Abraham believed. — euro/) these, and these alone, the other descendants of Abraham being excluded. — v'/oi, sons) ver. 29.
8. Upoidovffa 8s 9 but \_and moreover] foreseeing) As, but [and moreover^ being an emphatic addition (ttnrar/x&v), extends the force of the argument to the Gentiles also. The term foreseeing implies divine foreknowledge, more ancient than the law. The great excellence of sacred Scripture is, that all the points likely to be controverted are foreseen and decided in it, even in the most appropriate language. — n ypoupr), scripture) A mode of expression abbreviated and condensed in a manifold degree, as will be evident to him who evolves the ideas involved in it, thus ; it is God who has given testimony to these things ; God foreknew that He would act in this manner with the Gentiles ; God therefore already at that time acted in a similar manner with Abraham ; God also caused it to be consigned to writing, and that too when at the time that it was written, it was still future. All these things are included in that expression, foreseeing • --- All these ideas could not be so briefly expressed in our mode of speaking, otherwise [or if they could] they might be considered obscure. But the ardour of the apostle's mind, which, being filled with the Spirit, was directed to one topic, and that too of principal importance, produces this effect [the combination of great brevity with freedom from obscurity]. What was spoken to Abraham, was written out in the time of Moses. — IK -Trttrtug, by faith) not
plies to God. Xojpwye?*, to minister those gifts to others as the servant and instrument of God, applies to the minister. — ED.