Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Galatians 1:10

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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For--accounting for the strong language he has just used. do I now--resuming the "now" of Gal 1:9. "Am I now persuading men?" [ALFORD], that is, conciliating. Is what I have just now said a sample of men-pleasing, of which I am accused? His adversaries accused him of being an interested flatterer of men, "becoming all things to all men," to make a party for himself, and so observing the law among the Jews (for instance, circumcising Timothy), yet persuading the Gentiles to renounce it (Gal 5:11) (in order to flatter those, really keeping them in a subordinate state, not admitted to the full privileges which the circumcised alone enjoyed). NEANDER explains the "now" thus: Once, when a Pharisee, I was actuated only by a regard to human authority and to please men (Luk 16:15; Joh 5:44), but NOW I teach as responsible to God alone (Co1 4:3). or God?--Regard is to be had to God alone. for if I yet pleased men--The oldest manuscripts omit "for." "If I were still pleasing men," &c. (Luk 6:26; Joh 15:19; Th1 2:4; Jam 4:4; Jo1 4:5). On "yet," compare Gal 5:11. servant of Christ--and so pleasing Him in all things (Tit 2:9; Col 3:22).

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