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I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by the hearing[a] of [b] faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun-with[c] the Spirit are you now perfecting-yourselves[d] with the flesh? Did you suffer[e] so many things in-vain— if indeed it really was in-vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:2 Or, report.
  2. Galatians 3:2 That is, the subjective obedient hearing proceeding from or characterized by faith (was it by works or by your believing?); or, the objective report concerning faith (was it by works or by the proclaiming of the gospel to you?).
  3. Galatians 3:3 That is, begun in the sphere of; or, begun by means of. Same next on ‘with the flesh’.
  4. Galatians 3:3 Or, being perfected, completed, finished.
  5. Galatians 3:4 That is, suffer negative consequences, persecutions. Or, experience, referring to positive benefits.

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