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Who Has Bewitched You? Do You Live By The Spirit And Faith, Or The Flesh And Law?

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched[a] you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed[b] as crucified? I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by the hearing[c] of [d] faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun-with[e] the Spirit are you now perfecting-yourselves[f] with the flesh?

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:1 Or, charmed.
  2. Galatians 3:1 Or, placarded, publicly-posted.
  3. Galatians 3:2 Or, report.
  4. 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?).
  5. Galatians 3:3 That is, begun in the sphere of; or, begun by means of. Same next on ‘with the flesh’.
  6. Galatians 3:3 Or, being perfected, completed, finished.

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