Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be

written for our learning; grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of Thy Holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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1. Paul, an apostle [not by men's appointing, neither of man's doctrine, but of Jesus Christ's, and of God's the father that raised him, from the dead,] 2. and those that are with me, all brethren to the churches of the Galatia referred to,

3. grace to you and peace, from God, he that is a father and Lord of our Jesus Christ,

4. that gave himself, for our sins, to the end that he should have delivered us, from an evil age that has been present i e from the guilt attaching to man on account of past evil actions, according to the will of our God and father,

500. See Rom. i. 4.

5. to whom the glory of this deliverance is to be

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ascribed unto the ages of the ages. Amen,

6. I marvel, that so soon ye are removed from him

that called you, to partake of grace from Christ, unto

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another gospel,

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7. which another is not, except some that trouble you are, even wishing to have subverted the gospel of the Christ,

8. but even if we or an angel, from heaven, should

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preach a gospel to you, beside what, we preached to you, cursed, it exists,

9. as we have before said, so now again I say, if

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any one is proclaimed a glad tiding to you, beside

what, ye received, cursed, it exists,

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10. And now do I confide in men, or the God, or

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do I desire men to please, if yet I was pleasing men,

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a servant of Christ probably I had not existed.

501,1. Another Gospel. Literally, An absolutely different one; whereas &c., It was so changed as practically to be a different one; hence &c., 321.

502. Should preach a gospel to you. Literally, To you in particular; whereas &c. not to be so restricted; hence &c., 321.

503. Pleasing men. Literally, Effecting that end; whereas &c., Endeavouring to do so; hence &c., 321.

504. Servant of Christ. His doing so would not prevent his being Christ's servant, but it would prevent his acting as a servant of Christ should act, which is the Sense intended to be conveyed; hence &c., 321.

11. But I certify to you, brethren, the gospel that was preached of me, that it exists not after man.

12. For neither I, of man, received it, neither was taught it save through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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13. Verily ye heard of the my conversation. When in the Jews religion, that beyond measure, I was persecuting the church of the God, and was wasting it,

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14. and was profiting to the Jews religion, above many equals, in my nation. More largely, zealous being for my fathers traditions.

15. But when he was pleased, he that separated me, from womb of my mother, and called through

his grace,

16. to have revealed his son, to me, in order that I should preach him, to the nations immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood,

17. neither departed to Jerusalem, to those that were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and again returned unto Damascus.

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504,1. Stop. The Sense here is not, Ye heard it at the time when I was in the Jews religion, which is the Literal Sense; but, Ye have heard what my conversation in the Jews religion was; hence the Major Stop. See Rule 184.

504,2. Stop. The Sense here is not, That what follows was the active cause, which the Literal Sense requires it should be; but,

18. Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem

to have seen Peter, and I abode with him fifteen days.

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19. But I saw not other of the apostles save

James the Lord's brother.

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20. Now what things I write to you.

before the God, that I do not lie.

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Behold

21. Then I came into the regions of the Syria and of the Cilicia referred to.

22. Although I had existed as a Jew, being unknown by the face to the churches of the Judea that were in Christ.

23. As only hearing, they were existing, that he

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that persecutes us once. Now is preaching the faith, which once he was destroying,

24. yet they were glorifying on account of me the God.

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That it was the immediate means; hence the Major Stop. See
Rule 184.

505. Stop. The Sense here is not, That what succeeds this Stop immediately followed the particulars recorded in that which immediately precedes it, which is the Literal Sense; but, That it is the succeeding particular which the writer desired at that time to record; hence the Major Stop. See Rule 184.

506. I saw not &c. Literally, At no time; whereas &c., At that particular time; hence &c., 321.

506,1. Stop. The Sense here is not, At the time he wrote, which is the Literal Sense; but, That he had embraced; hence the Major Stop. See Rule 184.

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