Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Galatians 1:10
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10. For —accounting for the strong language he has just used. do I now —resuming the "now" of Galatians 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 ( Galatians 1:9- : ) (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 ( Luke 16:15 ; John 5:44 ), but NOW I teach as responsible to God alone ( 1 Corinthians 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. ( Luke 6:26 John 15:19 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:4 ; James 4:4 ; 1 John 4:5 ). On "yet," compare 1 John 4:5- : . servant of Christ —and so pleasing Him in all things ( Titus 2:9 ; Colossians 3:22 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-11" class="com-number"
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