come. Rom. v. 4, 5. — a^^b^d^a) We wait for, and obtain by waiting for it. A double compound. Paul includes and con firms present things, while he mentions those that are future.
6. 'I0%u6/) prevails, avails. The same word occurs, Matt. v. 13; James v. 16. — ovrs at,xpo@v<Jria>, nor uncircumcision) This re fers to those who, if they regard themselves as free from the law, think that they are Christians on that account alone. — tfiffns di ayaxris svtpyovf&svfy faith working by love) This is the new creature ; vi. 15. He joined hope with faith ; now he joins with it love. In these the whole of Christianity [the being in Christ] consists; evepyovfAevq is not passive, but middle, 1 Thess. ii. 13 ; nor does Paul put love as a form of faith, but shows that, along with faith, nothing else than love remains, ver. 13, 14 ; in which very truth, however, he teaches the same thing as James, ii. 22. Faith is recommended to those who defend circumcision ; love, to those who think that uncircumcision is [avails] something, [that they may be reminded that the law is not set aside by faith, but confirmed. — V. g.] Love is opposed to the enmities which prevailed so virulently among the Galatians : ver. 13, 15, 20, 26. Those seeking justification by ivorks are at a very great distance from love. The Spirit is a Spirit of faith and love*
-v.g.]
7. 'Erps^srs xa\Z>$, ye did run well) in the race of faith, as your calling required, ver. 8 ; comp. Phil. iii. 14. This implies greater activity than to walk. He again comes to arguments calculated to conciliate and move the feelings. — ri$, ivho) no one, to whom you ought to have listened. So, who, iii. 1. — Jvsxo-4/s, hindered) in running.
8. 'H wff/j,ovri) Most commentators interpret it persuasion, also with the addition of this, that, or your [ha3c, ista, vestra], according to the testimony of Lubinus on this passage. Comp. Clirysost. This word very rarely occurs, and Eustathius alone, as I can find, has it at Odyss. %., where he shows that " tfg/ir^a and ireigpovJi are said respecting those that start difficulties and set themselves in the way [«r/ ruv evffranxuv — stubborn, obsti nate persons], and are figuratively taken from the cables [*tf6p&ruv]j that is, the hawsers used in ships." But a pertina cious and obstinate man is given to starting difficulties [is
; and therefore that man has vetffftovw, self-confidence,
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who, having left off running, svs^srai, holds fast to [the law] obstinately, and who persuades and trusts to himself alone, and does not obey [^si&srai] another, ver. 1, 7 ; and in this way w veiOeaQa/, and »} nziffpovri, and irtKoiGa, form an Antanaclasis,1 a figure, which is frequently used both by Paul, as many con stantly observe, and by the other sacred writers, as Glassius well demonstrates. Whether it be a metaphor or not, at least this verbal noun, like other nouns in-o^, is intransitive2 [not a persuading of others, but a persuasion in one's self], — oux, not) supply is ; is not of (God), who called you, but from a power truly hostile ; and there is subjoined a metonymy of the abstract for the concrete, as appears from the previous word, who, not what. — %a\ovvro$) ivho called you ; comp. ver. 13, you have been called. So 1 Thess. v. 24 ; comp. Phil. iii. 14. The calling is the rule of the whole race.
9. Mixpa £u,a>j, a little leaven) One turbulent person, ver. 10. [One wicked man destroys much good, Eccles. ix. 18. The malice, cunning, or violence of a single person, often produces immense in jury.— V. g.]
10. "AXXo, different) from what ["none otherwise minded" than as] I write. — (ppovfasre, you will think) when you read these things; comp. Phil. iii. 15. — 6 8e, but he who) A distinction is drawn hereby between the seducer, of whom there is less hope, and the seduced. — rapacauv — xpi/Aa, offrig, troubleth — judgment, whosoever) ch. i. 7, 8. — /3a<rra<rs/, will bear) as a heavy burden. — rb xpipa, the judgment) which certainly hangs over him for so great a crime. The article gives force to the meaning. — oor/g av y, whosoever he may be) The disturber among the Galatians was a clandestine one. fang, whosoever, of whatsoever cha racter.