Galatians 1:4

“Who gave himself for our sins, etc..] The antecedent to the relative “who, is our Lord Jesus Christ”, (<480103>Galatians 1:3) and the words are an illustration of the good will of God the Father, and of the grace and love of Christ, in the gift of himself, for the sins of his people: he did not merely give, “sua, his own things”, what were his properly, but, “se, himself”; not the world, and the fulness of it, gold, silver, and such like corruptible things; no, nor men for them, and people for their lives; nor angels, his creatures, and ministering spirits; but his own self, his life, his flesh, his blood, his body, and soul, his whole human nature, and this as in union with himself, a…”

“gave himself-- (Gal 2:20); unto death, as an offering. Found only in this and the Pastoral Epistles. The Greek is different in Eph 5:25 (see on Eph 5:25). for our sins--which enslaved us to the present evil world. deliver us from this--Greek, "out of the," &c. The Father and Son are each said to "deliver us," &c. (Col 1:13): but the Son, not the Father, gave Himself for us in order to do so, and make us citizens of a better world (Phi 3:20). The Galatians in desiring to return to legal bondage are, he implies, renouncing the deliverance which Christ wrought for us. This he more fully repeats in Gal 3:13. "Deliver" is the very word used by the Lord as to His deliverance of Paul himself (Act…”

“Who gave himself for our sins - The reason why Paul so soon introduces this important doctrine, and makes it here so prominent, probably is, that this was the cardinal doctrine of the Christian religion, the great truth which was ever to be kept before the mind, and because this truth had been in fact lost sight of by them. They had embraced doctrines which tended to obscure it, or to make it void. They had been led into error by the Judaizing teachers, who held that it was necessary to be circumcised, and to conform to the whole Jewish ritual. Yet the tendency of all this was to obscure the doctrines of the gospel, and particularly the great truth that people can be justified only by faith…”

“That he might deliver us from the present evil world - From the guilt, wickedness, and misery wherein it is involved, and from its vain and foolish customs and pleasures. According to the will of God - Without any merit of ours. St. Paul begins most of his epistles with thanksgiving; but, writing to the Galatians, he alters his style, and first sets down his main proposition, That by the merits of Christ alone, giving himself for our sins, we are justified: neither does he term them, as he does others, either saints," elect," or churches of God." Galatians 1:5”

“1:4-5 This summary of the Good News is the basis for the rebuke that follows (1:6-10). This might be a creed or confession of faith that Paul used to remind the Galatians of the message they had earlier embraced. 1:4 Because Jesus completely rescued us from our sins, there is no place for efforts to save ourselves. • Christian faith rescues us from this evil world in which we live (see 4:8-12; 5:13-26).”

“gave: Gal 2:20; Mat 20:28, Mat 26:28; Mar 10:45; Luk 22:19; Joh 10:11, Joh 10:17, Joh 10:18; Rom 4:25; Eph 5:2; Ti1 2:6; Tit 2:14; Heb 9:14, Heb 10:9, Heb 10:10; Pe1 2:24; Pe1 3:18; Jo1 2:2, Jo1 3:16; Rev 1:5 from: Gal 6:14; Isa 65:17; Joh 12:31, Joh 14:30, Joh 15:18, Joh 15:19, Joh 17:14, Joh 17:15; Rom 12:2; Co2 4:4; Eph 2:2, Eph 6:12; Heb 2:5, Heb 6:5; Jam 4:4; Jo1 2:15-17, Jo1 5:4, Jo1 5:5, Jo1 5:19; Jo1 5:20; Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9 according: Psa 40:8; Mat 26:42; Luk 22:42; Joh 5:30, Joh 6:38, Joh 14:30, Joh 14:31; Rom 8:3, Rom 8:27, Rom 8:32; Eph 1:3, Eph 1:11; Heb 10:4-10 our: Mat 6:9; Rom 1:7; Eph 1:2; Phi 4:20; Th1 3:11, Th1 3:13; Th2 2:16 Galatians 1:5”