THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Galatians

1:4a world: Aion: 'age,' 'course of this world.'
1:6b change: Or, possibly, 'are changed.'
1:6c gospel: Or 'glad tidings,' as elsewhere.
1:7d but: 'But' has here the sense of 'but it is only that,' 'nothing else than that,' as Luke 4:27.
1:13e conversation: i.e. 'manner of life.'
1:14f doctrines: Or 'traditions.'
1:15g God: Or 'the God who,' &c.
1:15h even: I have inserted 'even' here that it may be quite clear that 'from my mother's womb' is a point of time. There can be no doubt of it: see Matt. 19:12, Luke 1:15; Acts 3:2; 14:8. The Greek has the force of 'taking out,' as distinguished or appropriated to something, though doubtless meaning 'to separate.' I have therefore said 'set apart.'
1:18i Peter: Very probably 'Cephas;' and at ch. 2:11, 14.
1:19k but: As ver. 7.
1:22a personally: Lit. 'by face.'
2:2b privately: i.e. separately from the others.
2:4c might: The expression shows that what would have resulted as a consequence, i.e. 'bring us into bondage,' was indeed the purpose or object of those false brethren: see ver. 19; Phil. 3:8; Rev. 22:14.
2:6d nothing: It may be translated 'But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat; (whatsoever they were it makes no difference to me; God does not accept man's person;) to me indeed or, 'for to me' those who were conspicuous communicated nothing.'
2:7e me: Or 'I was entrusted with the glad tidings of the uncircumcision.'
2:11f, 2:14f Peter: See Note, ch. 1:18.
2:11g condemned: Or rather 'because he was convicted of evil.'
2:14h not: The present tense here is characteristic; it is not the present of time; as Acts 25:11, 'have done any wrong,' and John 8:14, 'I come.' Perhaps we might say 'saw them not walking,' but it is too free.
2:16a nor: The Greek has the sense of 'but,' with an exclusive force, which I have endeavoured to render by 'nor' in brackets: see Rom. 7:7; 14:14; 1Cor. 7:17; Gal. 1:7. We may translate perhaps, 'but only.'
2:19b may: See Note to 'might bring,' ver. 4.
2:20c *I*: Or 'but I live, no longer I,' &c.
3:6d righteousness: See Gen. 15:6.
3:8e blessed: See Gen. 12:3.
3:10f written: See Deut. 27:26.
3:11g, 3:12g by: En: meaning 'in the power of,' 'in virtue of,' 'according to the principle and nature of.'
3:11h faith: See Hab. 2:4.
3:12i them: See Lev. 18:5.
3:13k redeemed: Exagorazo: only here and ch. 4:5; Eph. 5:16; Col. 4:5, 'to buy out from.'
3:13l written: See Deut. 21:23.
3:14m to: Ginomai eis, i.e. 'arrive at that point, be there.' 'Be on' would state too much, and involve application.
3:16a seed: See Gen. 22:18.
3:19b transgressions: i.e. in order to bring evil into relief by transgressions.
3:20c a: Or 'the.' It is abstract -- 'that kind of person.'
3:21d able: Or 'such as was able to quicken,' an emphatic phrase.
3:23e faith: Or 'the faith.'
3:24f to: See Eph. 1:14, and Note.
3:27g ye: 'Ye' is not emphatic. The passage does not imply that some might not have been. The apostle is speaking of the bearing of the ordinance
4:4h come: Or 'born,' but the word (ginomai) means primarily 'to begin existence,' 'to become,' or 'to happen.'
4:5i sonship: Or 'adoption.' It is receiving the position of sonship as a gift. 'Receive' has an active force here. Jew and Gentile received it as a gift from another, even freely from God; for the Jew was in bondage under law: the Gentile had right to nothing: see Rom. 8:15, 23; 9:4; Eph. 1:5.
4:7k God: God himself has made us heirs.
4:8l gods: As the Hebrew in 2Chron. 13:9, 'what is not God.'
4:13a in: Dia, here meaning the state he was in, not going through and out, but staying within the time or space or limits. 'In weakness' characterized the manner of his coming to them.
4:14b contempt: Lit. 'spit out.'
4:19c children: Teknia, as John 13:33.
4:22d, 4:30d servant, 4:31d servant's: Or 'bondmaid,' paidiske (as Acts 12:13). Though in practice the word amounted to the same as a bondmaid, yet the Greek root is essentially different from that of doulos, a bondman, or slave.
4:27e written: See Isa. 54:1.
4:30f scripture: See Gen. 21:10.
4:30g not: 'Not at all;' 'in no wise;' a strong negative.
5:1h freedom: i.e. liberty as opposed to bondage. See 1Cor. 10:29.
5:4i profit: The word translated here 'deprived of all profit' is hard to translate. The active form means to render anything useless and unprofitable, or miss an opportunity; as 'annulled,' Eph. 2:15. Here it is passive and with the preposition (apo) 'from.' Hence it is to be deprived of the profit or effect of anything. It is used in Rom. 7:6 ('we are clear') in the same form as here, for our deliverance from under the law; only there it refers not to profit, but to the action of the law. It had for them become void of effect. So here Christ. What the word speaks of is, not separation from Christ personally, but from what is for us in him.
5:7a stopped: The proper sense is 'to stop by cutting off the way.' As 'hinder,' Rom. 15:22; 1Thess. 2:18.
5:8b persuasibleness: Or 'the persuasion.'
5:10c whosoever: Hostis, including his character, as Matt. 7:24.
5:12d cut: Or 'mutilate.'
5:13e to: Epi: the condition into which they are called; what characterizes their calling as a condition of its existence: see Notes, Rom. 4:18; 5:14.
5:13f serve: Douleuo, serve as a bondman, see Note, 1Cor. 4:1.
5:14g thyself: See Lev. 19:18.
5:16h in, 5:18h, 5:25h by: The expression 'by the Spirit' occurs in vers. 18 and 25; but in ver. 16 'walk' refers to the general manner of life, as Rom. 8:4, so I have left 'in.' In vers. 18 and 25 'walk' refers to the rule or line followed, as ch. 6:16; Rom. 4:12; Phil. 3:16. It is characteristic of the walk, leading, and life, the Spirit being the instrument and power.
5:16i way: A strong negative, as ch. 4:30.
6:1a restore: As 'mending,' Matt. 4:21: see Note g, 1Cor. 1:10.
6:2b Bear, fulfil: 'Bear' is in the present tense, 'fulfil' in the aorist: 'thus have it fulfilled:' see Rom. 6:13.
6:2c burdens, 6:5c burden: The words for 'burden' in vers. 2 and 5 are different; ver. 2 is the same as Matt. 20:12; ver. 5 as Matt. 11:30.
6:2d the: Or 'Christ,' but the article is better here in English. The expression alludes to their fondness for law.
6:4e to: Or 'in respect to.'
6:10f good: This supposes more positive activity of service than 'doing good,' in ver. 9, which is the character of conduct. 'Let us do good' here is the service and labour in which it is shown.
6:11g letter: Or perhaps 'in what large letters.' It was long for the apostle to write with his own hand, as he generally dictated to another.
6:12h of: Or 'through.'
6:14i whom: Or 'through which.'
6:16k walk: See Note, ch. 5:25.

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