The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 46

B11cription or proiee as an affirmation that converlll, once 10 cordial and affectionate, to God belongs or is due the glory of our have possibly been so misled? As be reflects performing oar several duties with reference on the case, whatever feeling of resentment to this end. In like manner in the (most mingled with hie surprise tarns off upon probably interpolo.ted) doxology at the close the p~udo-e_v~ngelists misleading them ; Bild of the Lord's prayer in Matt. vi. 13, "For 1LCCOrdmgly1t 1s upon these that his anathema thine is the kingdom," etc., the OMJrlptwn of is pronouncecl, not upon U.em at all ( cf. eh. v. praise is not so much expressed ae lillplied. 9, 12). They, indeed, by listening to the Viewed in themselves, the words simply false teaching, were in danger of falling from state the truth which constitutes the ground grace; bnt this he rather compe.ssionates than for our addressing to " our Father " our angrily denounces. Tha.t ye are so soon re- praises and our petitions. The article is moved (8-r, o!J.,.,, -ra.xl"'s µe-r11-ri8eo-8e); that ye most commonly prefixed to 6&!a in such are so quickly falling away. This "quickly" ascriptions of praise, whether 66!11 stands has been taken by many as meaning "so 8000 alone, as Rom. xi. 36; :xvi. 27; Eph. iii. 21; after ye were called," and as consequently Phil. iv. 20; 2 Tim. iv. 18; Heh. xiii 21; furnishing some ground for determining the 2 Pet. iii. 18; or in conjunction with other time of the writing of the Epistle. But nouns, as 1 Pet. iv. 11; Rev. i 6; vii. 12. the comparison of the we of the same It is wanting in Luke ii. 14; xix. 38; 1 Tim. adverb (-r11x{.,,s) in 2 These. ii 2, "Be not i. 17; Jude 25. When the article is added quickly shaken;" and in 1 Tim. v. 22, "Lay it marks the noun ILB expressing its notion hands hastily on no man," enggests rather viewed absolutely, in its entirety or uni- the meaning," so quickly upon being solicited versality: q.d. "Wl;latever glory is to be thereto." The verb µe,,-a-rl8.u8a,, to transfer ascribed anywhere, be it ascribed to him.'' one's self to a different coarse of thinking, Thus .;, 60!11 is equivalent to "all glory." acting, partisanship (cf. Liddell and Scott, For ever and et1er; lit.emlly, into the aiom of •Lexicon'), is wed both in an unfavourable the a ions; apparently a form of expression and in a good sense. Thus 2 Mace. vii. 24, adopted to denote intensification or superla- Me-r118eµE11011 &,,rl, ""'" 'IJ'IITplc.w 110/J,OJI': " If he tiveness, like "holy of holies" (cf. Winer, would give over following the laws of his 'Gram. N. T.,' § 36, 2). It is used where conntry;" Appian,• Bell. Mithr.,' 41: "Fall- especial intensity is wished to be added to ing away, going over, from (,iorli)Archelausto the notion of long undetermined duration ; Sylla; '' J amblich, • Protrept,' 17, " Chang11 as Rev. xiv. 11; xv. 7; xxii. 5, etc. The from ( &,,rl,) a restless and profligate mode of same notion is expressed, only with not the life to an orderly one." The verb, being ill same passionate earnestness, by the phrase, the present tense, and not in the aorist or "into the ailJns," in Luke i. 33; Rom. i. 25; the perfect, suggests the idea of an action ix. 5; xi. 36, etc.; and by "into the ailm," in its commencing stage, and not yet fully in Matt. xxi. 19; John vi. 51, 58, etc. Pos- COil81llIIIIlll,ied ; ae Chrysostom obii0rves : sibly there is a reference of contrast to" this "That is, • I do not yet believe nor suppose present ai4n" of ver. 4. This, however, is that the delusion has got to be complete• - doubtful; for in ver. 4 ai/m points to a the language of one who will fain win them pu.rticule.r CODdition of affairs subsisting in ba.:k." From him that eall.ed you into the this ~ rather than to a mere mode of graee of Christ (,...-1, -roii ,ca>..euav-ros vµas .,. duration, wbioh latter is alone in view here. xd.plTI Xp10'Toii) ; from mm that called you i.o The like observation applies to Eph. ii. 2 be in the grace of Ohrat. The phrase, " he compe.red with ver. 7. that called you," recites the personality of Ver. 6.-It is unneceetlo.ry again to remark "our God and Father," spoken of in ,ers. on the disturbance of ruin<l. indicated by the 3, 4. The calling of man into the kingdom obruptness with which the apostle plunges of God is habitually ascribed by St. Paul to into the la.nguu.ge of reproof. It cannot fail the First Person in the Trinity (cf. ver. to strike every careful reo.der. I marvel 15 ; Rom. viii. 30; ix. 24, 25 ; 1 Cor. L 9 ; ( 811vµd(w) ; I do marvel. The verb is used vii. 15, 17; 1 These. ii. 12; 2 Thess. ii. H; here with rnference to something disap- 2 Tim. i. 9). God's name is omitted, IL8 in pointing, something felt to be po.inful as ver. 15 (where it is wo.nting in the more well as strange. So Mark vi. 6 with re- recent texts), and eh. ii. 8, "For he that ference to the unbelief of the Nazarenes. wrought for Peter." The apostle impres- It is unjust to the apostle to take this "I sively, even ste.rtlingly, dcsc1·ibes their de. do mo.rvel " of his o.e a mere artifice of fectiou from the truth of the gospel as no politic address: though unquestioni\bly, other than a defection from Go<l. himself; as Chrysostom and Luther have well noted, silnilurly to the strain of lo.nguage pursued it does soften hie rebuke. The apostle in Heh. iii. 12-15. "The grace of Christ" WILB genuinely surprised; for he ho.d had so recites the state of acceptance with God into much reason for thinking well of 11hem (comp. which Christiane e.re brought by Chriat oh. iii. 1; iv. 14, 15; v. 7). How could through fu.ith iu hiln. So eh. v. 4, "F,l..iler  10 THE EPISTLE 'l'O THE GALATIANS. [oH. I, 1-24,