Galatians 4:13

Galatians 4:13

11 I am afraid for you, ^alest I have labored for you in vain.

12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. ^aYou have not injured me at all.

13 You know that ^abecause of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me ^aas an angel of God, ^beven as Christ Jesus.

15 ¹What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

17 They ^azealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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how through infirmity—rather, as Greek, "Ye know that because of an infirmity of my flesh I preached," etc. He implies that bodily sickness, having detained him among them, contrary to his original intentions, was the occasion of his preaching the Gospel to them.

at the first—literally, "at the former time"; implying that at the time of writing he had been twice in Galatia. See my Introduction; also see on Galatians 4:16, and Galatians 5:21. His sickness was probably the same as recurred more violently afterward, "the thorn in the flesh" (II Corinthians 12:7), which also was overruled to good (II Corinthians 12:9-10), as the "infirmity of the flesh" here.

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