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Chapter 1:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 Corinthians Ephesians
Introduction to Galatians
The epistle to the Galatians sets before us the great source of the
afflictions and conflicts of the apostle in the regions where he had
preached the glad tidings; that which was at the same time the principal
means employed by the enemy to corrupt the gospel. God, it is true, in His
love, has suited the gospel to the wants of man. The enemy brings down that
which still bears its name to the level of the haughty will of man and the
corruption of the natural heart, turning Christianity into a religion that
suits that heart, in place of one that is the expression of the heart of
God-an all-holy God-and the revelation of that which He has done in His
love to bring us into communion with His holiness. We see, at the same
time, the connection between the judaising doctrine-which is the denial of
full redemption, and looking for good in flesh and man's will, power in man
to work out righteousness in himself for God-in those who hindered the
apostle's work, and the attacks that were constantly aimed against his
ministry; because that ministry appealed directly to the power of the Holy
Ghost and to the immediate authority of a glorified Christ, and set man as
ruined, and Judaism which dealt with man, wholly aside. In withstanding the
efforts of the judaisers, the apostle necessarily establishes the
elementary principles of justification by grace. Traces both of this combat
with the spirit of Judaism, by which Satan endeavoured to destroy true
Christianity, and of the maintenance by the apostle of this liberty, and of
the authority of his ministry, are found in a multitude of passages in
Corinthians, in Philippians, in Colossians, in Timothy, and historically in
the Acts. In Galatians the two subjects are treated in a direct and formal
way. But the gospel is consequently reduced to its most simple elements,
grace to its most simple expression. But, with regard to the error, the
question is but the more decisively settled; the irreconcilable difference
between the two principles, Judaism and the gospel, is the more strongly
marked.
God allowed this invasion of His assembly in the earliest days of its
existence, in order that we might have the answer of divine inspiration to
these very principles, when they should be developed in an established
system which would claim submission from the children of God as being the
church that He had established and the only ministry that He acknowledged.
The immediate source of true ministry, according to the gospel that Paul
preached to the Gentiles, the impossibility of uniting the law and that
gospel-of binding up together subjection to its ordinances and distinction
of days-with the holy and heavenly liberty into which we are brought by a
risen Christ, the impossibility, I repeat, of uniting the religion of the
flesh with that of the Spirit, are plainly set forth in this epistle.
Introduction:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Luther
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Chapter 1:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Luther
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 Corinthians Ephesians
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Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalm
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
