This only would I learn of you, Received ye the [a]Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of [b]faith preached?

[c]Are ye so foolish, that after ye have begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the [d]flesh?

[e]Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if so be it be even in vain.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:2 Those spiritual graces and gifts, which were a seal as it were to the Galatians, that the Gospel which was preached to them was true.
  2. Galatians 3:2 Of the doctrine of faith.
  3. Galatians 3:3 The fourth argument mixed with [the former] and it is double, If the Law is to be joined with faith, this were not to go forward, but backward, seeing that those spiritual gifts which were bestowed upon you, are more excellent than any that could proceed from yourselves. And moreover, it should follow, that the Law is better than Christ, because it should perfect and bring to end that which Christ began only.
  4. Galatians 3:3 By the (flesh) he meaneth the ceremonies of the Law, against which he setteth the Spirit, that is, the spiritual working of the Gospel.
  5. Galatians 3:4 An exhortation by manner of upbraiding, that they do not in vain suffer so many conflicts.

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