galatians-3:5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 3:1-5

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 3:1. Who hath bewitched you?—Fascinated you, as if overlooked by the evil eye, so that your brain is confused. The Galatians were reputed to possess acute intellects: the apostle marvelled the more at their defection. That ye should not obey the truth.—Omitted in R.V. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified.—In preaching, a vivid portraiture of Christ crucified has been set before you as if depicted in graphic characters... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Galatians 3:1-29

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There were many churches established there. After Paul's departure, other teachers came in declaring that the people could not be saved by a simple faith in Jesus Christ, but must also to that faith add the obedience to the law and the rituals of the law of circumcision. And many of the people in those... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 3:1-29

Galatians 3:1 . Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you: εβασκανε , who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the truth and glory of a crucified Redeemer. The jews and greeks, on seeing Christ set before them, as he is in the scriptures, first suffering and then entering into his glory, have believed on him, and most of them believed under the first sermon they heard. Why then should you, oh misguided men, be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 3:5

Galatians 3:5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles.Moral inspirationI. Its nature. The supernatural power of the Holy Spirit in man.1. In ordinary Christians: regeneration; Christian energy” moral influence.2. In extraordinary ministers, as apostles and prophets: miracles; tongues; prophecy. The latter form intermittent; the former permanent.II. Its origin. Divine, and therefore to be distinguished from--1. The intellectual inspiration of genius.2. The emotional... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Galatians 3:5

5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Ver. 5. Or by the hearing of faith ] Faith (and so life) is let into the soul by the sense of hearing,Isaiah 55:1-3; Isaiah 55:1-3 , to cross the devil, who by the same door brought death into the world. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Galatians 3:5

that: Galatians 3:2, 2 Corinthians 3:8 worketh: Acts 14:3, Acts 14:9, Acts 14:10, Acts 19:11, Acts 19:12, Romans 15:19, 1 Corinthians 1:4, 1 Corinthians 1:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 12:12, 2 Corinthians 13:3 by the works: Galatians 3:2 Reciprocal: Exodus 35:35 - the cunning Acts 19:2 - We have Romans 10:8 - the word of faith Romans 15:16 - ministering 1 Corinthians 1:6 - was 1 Corinthians 12:10 - the working 2 Corinthians 6:6 - by the Galatians 2:8 - the same Galatians 3:14 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Galatians 3:5

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?And, at the present time, Doth he that ministereth the gift of the Spirit to you, and worketh miracles among you, do it by the works of the law - That is, in confirmation of his preaching justification by works, or of his preaching justification by faith? read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 3:5

The Abrahamic faith-covenant is superior to law, which works curse, Galatians 3:5-14. 5. He God. Ministereth Abundantly supplies. Worketh miracles Rather, inworketh within you miraculous powers. Endoweth you with the power of performing miracles. This assumes that the Galatians had performed miracles, but not as Judaizers. Faith In its various uses in the Bible the word faith ranges through the various meanings of belief, trust, fidelity, trustworthiness. And in the Christian... read more