10-07 - Galatians 3 1-7

paraphrased ‘enter the story’

   🕊️reading & study 🕊️

1 - Oh foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched [baskainó - to slander, hence by extension, to fascinate, bewitch, and overpower, from baskanos - to cast an evil spell, wishing injury upon someone, to bewitch. In classical Greek, Aristotle used baskaínō for "bewitching through the use of an evil power." That is, putting someone under a spell so they no longer could think (act) according to reason ..is also associated with envy ..slander (who has) bedazzled] you? It was before your eyes and public that Jesus Christ was crucified. 2 And let me ask you this! Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law? Or was it by hearing, with faith? By hearing, and believing what you heard. 3 And now are you so foolish?! Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by your own goodness and efforts? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it was in vain? 5 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, do so by works of the law? Or by hearing with faith? 6 Just as Abraham “believed God - and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

     7 Know thiS then! It is those who are of faith, who are the children of Abraham.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, 

usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrow - Galatians 3:8-15.

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post.. which has turned out to be an interesting way to ‘enter the ‘story’. 

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