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has also was carried away with their dissimulation.

VER. 14.

̓Αλλ ̓ ὅτε εἶδον ὅτι οὐκ ὀρθοποδοῦσι πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, εἶπον τῷ Πέτρῳ ἔμπροσθεν πάντων· Εἰ σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ὑπάρχων, ἐθνικῶς ζῆς, καὶ οὐκ Ἰουδαϊκῶς, τί τὰ ἔθνη ἀναγκάζεις Ἰουδαΐζειν ;

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, a I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear, 1 Tim. v. 20. VER. 15.

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VER. 16.

Εἰδότες ὅτι οὐ δικαιοῦται ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ἔργων νόμου, ἐὰν μὴ διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐπιστεύσαμεν, ἵνα δικαιωθῶμεν ἐκ πίστεως Χριστοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου διότι οὐ δικαιωθήσεται ἐξ ἔργων νόμου πᾶσα σάρξ.

a Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, b but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

a See on Acts xiii. ver. 39.

b See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1. See on Acts xiii. ver. 39.

Οὐκ ἀθετῶ τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ· εἰ γὰρ διὰ νόμου δικαιοσύνη, ἄρα Χριστὸς δωρεὰν ἀπέθανεν.

\ I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

CHAP. III. VER. 1.

Ω ἀνόητοι Γαλάται, τίς ὑμᾶς ἐβάσκανε τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μὴ πείθεσθαι, οἷς κατ' ὀφε θαλμοὺς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς προεγράφη, ἐν ὑμῖν ἐσταυρωμένος ;

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

VER. 2.

Τοῦτο μόνον θέλω μαθεῖν ἀφ ̓ ὑμῶν, Εξ ἔργων, νόμου τὸ Πνεῦμα ἐλάβετε, ἢ ἐξ ἀκοῆς πίστεως;

This only would I learn of you, a Received ye the Spirit by the works of the | law, or by the hearing of faith ?

a See on John vii. ver. 39. clause 1.

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righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law work

eth wrath: for where no law is, there faith, that it might be by grace: to` is no transgression. Therefore it is of the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were, Rom. iv. 11-17. VER. 8.

Προϊδοῦσα δὲ ἡ γραφὴ ὅτι ἐκ πίστεως δικαιοῖ τὰ ἔθνη ὁ Θεὸς προευηγγελίσατο τῷ ̓Αβραάμ. Ὅτι εὐλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη.

And the Scripture, aforeseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all

ness.

* Or, imputed.

a See on Rom. iv. ver. 3. 5.

VER. 7. Γιώσκετε ἄρα ὅτι οἱ ἐκ πίστεως, οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοὶ ̔Αβραάμ.

a Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

a And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had, being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the law, but through the

a See on Matt. xii. ver. 18. clause 5. b See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1.

c For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it, Heb. iv. 2.

d See on Matt. i. ver. 1. clause 3.

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And all the people shall say, Amen, Deut. xxvii. 26.

Ἵνα εἰς τὰ ἔθνη ἡ εὐλογία τοῦ ̓Αβραὰμ γένηται ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἵνα τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Πνεύματος λάβωμεν διὰ τῆς πίστεως.

a That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; b that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

a See on ver. 7. and Matt. xii. ver. 18. clause 5.

b See on John vii. ver. 39. clause 1.

VER. 15.

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Brethren, a I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's * venant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

* Or, testament.

a See on Rom. vi. ver. 19. clause 1.

VER. 16.

Τῷ δὲ ̔Αβραὰμ ἐῤῥήθησαν αἱ ἐπαγγε λίαι, καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ. Οὐ λέγει· Καὶ τοῖς σπέρμασιν, ὡς ἐπὶ πολλῶν· ἀλλ ̓ ὡς ἐφ ̓ ἑνός· Καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου, ὅς ἐστι Χριστός.

a Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He suith not, And to seeds, as of many ; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

a See on Matt. i. ver. 1. clause 3.

VER. 17.

Τοῦτο δὲ λέγω, διαθήκην προκεκυρω μένην ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς Χριστὸν, ὃ μετὰ ἔτη τετρακόσια καὶ τριάκοντα γεγονὼς νόμος οὐκ ἀκυροῖ, εἰς τὸ καταργῆσαι τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν.

And this I say, a that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, b the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

a To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, Luke i. 72, 73.

b And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years, Gen. χν. 13. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty end of the four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the years, even the self same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt, Exod. xii. 40, 41.

VER. 18.

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Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, btill the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

a See on Rom. v. ver. 20. clause 1. b But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, Gal. iv. 4.

See on Acts vii. ver. 53. clause 1. d And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. And the poople stood afar off: and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven, Exod. xx. 19-22. And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the LORD; but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came, and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do, xxiv. 1-3. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the LoRD forty days and forty nights ; he did neither eat bread nor drink water. And He wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. And it came to pass, when Moses came

A. D. 58. down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while He talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone : and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all turned unto him: and Moses talked the rulers of the congregation rewith them. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai, xxxiv. 27-32. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them, Psal. cvi. 23.

Ὁ οὖν νόμος κατὰ τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ; Μὴ γένοιτο· εἰ γὰρ ἐδόθη νόμος ὁ δυνάμενος ζωοποιῆσαι, ὄντως ἂν ἐκ νόμου dialo

a Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

a Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled, Matt. v. 17, 18. See also on Matt. iii. ver. 15.

b See on Rom. ii. ver. 12. clause 2.

VER. 22.

̓Αλλὰ συνέκλεισεν ἡ γραφὴ τὰ πάντα ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα ἡ ἐπαγγελία ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοθῇ τοῖς πιστεύουσι.

a But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, b that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that

believe.

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a See on Rom. iii. ver. 19. clause 3. b See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1.

VER. 23.

Πρὸ τοῦ δὲ ἐλθεῖν τὴν πίστιν, ὑπὸ νόμον ἐφρουρούμεθα, συγκεκλεισμένοι εἰς τὴν μέλλουσαν πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι.

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a But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

a See on Rom. ii. ver. 12. clause 2. b These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth, Heb. xi. 13. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, 39, 40.

VER. 24.

Ωστε ὁ νόμος παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστὸν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν·

Wherefore a the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, b that we might be justified by faith.

a By the law was the knowledge of sin, Rom. iii. 20. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death, vii. 7-10. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ, Col. ii. 17. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, Heb. ix. 9.

b See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1.

VER. 25.

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Οὐκ ἔνι Ἰουδαῖος, οὐδὲ Ἕλλην· οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος, οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερος· οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ 'Incoũ.

a There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are

all one in Christ Jesus.

a See on Rom. ii. ver. 26.

b See on John xvii. ver. 11. clause 6. VER. 29.

Εἰ δὲ ὑμεῖς Χριστοῦ, ἄρα τοῦ ̓Αβραὰμ σπέρμα ἐστὲ, καὶ κατ ̓ ἐπαγγελίαν κληροvóμo.

And if ye be a Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

a See on John vi. ver. 37. clause 1. and 39. clause 3.

b See on Matt. iii. ver. 9.

c For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect, Rom. iv. 13, 14.

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