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John Gill's Exposition on Galatians 6:18
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Brethren, etc..] So he calls them, to testify his affection for them, notwithstanding their infirmity and instability, and the roughness with which he had treated them; and to show his great humility and condescension in owning the relation, and putting them on a level with himself, which the pride of the false teachers would not suffer them to do. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit: which is his concluding benediction and usual salutation and token in all his epistles: he wishes that more gifts of grace might be bestowed upon them; that the Gospel of the grace of God might be continued with them; that the love of Christ might be shed abroad in their hearts; that they might receive out of his fulness grace for grace; that there might be an increase of grace in their souls; that it might abound in them, and they grow in the exercise of it: he does not pray that the law of Moses, or the righteousness of works, but that the grace of Christ might be with them; not in the mere notion of it, but in the spiritual experience of it; that it might be in their hearts, and with their spirits, quickening, comforting, and strengthening them; making them more spiritual and evangelical in their frames and duties, and freeing them from a carnal and legal spirit: to all which he sets his Amen; signifying his desire that so it might be, and his faith that so it would be. The subscription of the letter follows, unto the Galatians, written from Rome; where perhaps he was then a prisoner; the Arabic version adds, “by Titus and Luke”: who might be sent with it, but the subscriptions of the epistles are not to be depended on. FOOTNOTES Ft1 -- Misn. Menachot, c. 10. sect. 3. & Yoma, c. 1. sect. 5. Ft2 -- Nat. Hist. 50:5. c. 32. Ft3 -- Zohar in Genesis fol. 72. 3. Ft4 -- Nat. Hist. 50:12. c. 21. Ft5 -- lb. 50:5. c. 12, 14, 16. Ft6 -- De Bello Jud. 50:3. c. 3. sect. 3. Ft7 -- Antiqu. 50:14. c. 1. sect. 4. & 50:4. c. 4. sect. 7. Ft8 -- De Locis Hebraicis, fol. 92. G. Ft9 -- Eccl. Hist. 50:7. c. 5. Ft10 -- lb. 50:8. c. 12. Ft11 -- Hist. Eccl. Magdeburgh. cent. 4. c. 9. p. 350, 390, 405, 425. cent. 5. c. 2. p. 2. c. 10. p. 552. Ft12 -- Advers. Helvidium, Tom. II. fol. 4. M. Ft13 -- R. Isaac, Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 8. p. 469. Ft14 -- Euseb. Eccl. Hist. 50:2. c. 23. Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccl. sect. 3. fol. 89. Ft15 -- Antiqu. 50:20. c. 8. sect. 1. Ft16 -- Chambers's Cyclopaedia in the word “Climate”. Ft17 -- L. 7. Polymnia, c. 91. Solinus, c. 51. Ft18 -- Canaan, p. 376. Ft19 -- L. 2. Euterpe, c. 34. Ft20 -- De Locis Hebraicis, fol. 95. M. Ft21 -- Misn. Sheviith, c. 9. sect. 2. Ft22 -- T. Hieros. Sheviith, fol. 38. 4. Ft23 -- Hieron. Catalog. Script. Ecclesiast. sect. 4. fol. 90. A. Ft24 -- Irenaeus adv. Haeres. 50:3. c. 1. Ft25 -- Hist. Ecclesiastes Magdeburg. cent. 1. 50:2. c. 10. p. 449. Ft26 -- Vid. Sol. Ben Melech in Psal. xl 17. Ft27 -- Epiphan. contr. Haeres. 50:1. Tom. 2. Haeres. 28. Ft28 -- Misn. Beracot, c. 2. sect. 5. Ft29 -- T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 28. 2. Ft30 -- Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 46. 1. Ft31 -- Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. 50:2. c. 19. Cormel. Nepos, 50:2. c. 8. Gale's Court of the Gentiles, part 2. book 2, c. 6. sect. 9. & c. 9. sect. 3. Ft32 -- Vajikra Rabba, sect. 2. fol. 147. 4. Ft33 -- Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. 50:1. c. 12. Ft34 -- In loc. Ft35 -- Mattanot Cehunah in Vajikra Rabba, fol. 164. 3. Ft36 -- Harpocratian. Lex. p. 93. Ft37 -- Bemidbar Rabba, Parash. 10. fol. 201. 4. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 122. 1. Ft38 --…
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