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Galatians 5:8

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

This persuasion [cometh] not of him that calleth you.

Galatians 5:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Galatians 5:8

Theological / Devotional

This persuasion. That is, persuasion to accept the teachings of the Judaizers.

Him that calleth. That is, Paul, or perhaps God speaking through Paul (see on Gal. 1:6; cf. 2 Cor. 5:19, 20). God could not have so persuaded them, nor could Paul. There must have been something peculiarly fascinating about the teaching of the Judaizers, for so many of the early Christians were seduced by it and so much of what Paul wrote warned against it (see pp. 33, 932). At this distance it seems almost as strange that Christians were lured into Judaizing as that in OT times the Jews were lured into idolatry.

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