“You who have … Continue reading "Commentary on Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16" Let us ask, then, what ground can be shown for cultivating a spirit of self-sacrifice? And if we regarded our own position individually, so we should find that there were many, many doors that had long been opened, into which we had been too blind or too lazy, or too selfishly absorbed in our own concerns, to enter. Numbers 10:32, Judges 17:13, Zephaniah 1:13. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/galatians-6.html. Get high enough up upon the hill, and the hedges between the fields are barely perceptible. 2. Our acquittal at the last day requires it (Matthew 25:34, etc.). By the same consideration let us be quickened in doing good. This seasonable time will have elapsed, when the παρουσία sets in; we must therefore utilize it as ours by the ἐργάζεσθαι τὸ ἀγαθόν. ‘The Bread of God which came down from heaven’ is an exotic everywhere, because it came down from heaven, but it can grow in all soils, and it can bring forth fruit unto eternal life everywhere amongst mankind. What is earnestness? Constant and unwearied in its operations. The kind of good done and the amount must both be governed by what Paul here calls “opportunity.” Circumstances being suitable for a particular ministration, we must minister; and circumstances fix the time and place, and the means, and the powers of the individual. The οἱ οἰκεῖοι are those belonging to the οἰκία-relatives, domestics. II. "And what is that?" Galatians 6:10 - So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of... - Verse-by-Verse Commentary You will find this in every walk of life. p. 698; Bernhardy, p. 265. τοὺς οἰκείους τῆς πίστεως] the associates in the faith, believers. The usage is foreign to the New Testament, at least in non-interrogative clauses. 1874-1909. σῖτος, home-grown corn, Thucyd. Comp. If you have a grain of gratitude in you for the highest blessings, act by grace towards Him in the spirit in which He has acted towards you. ‘As we have therefore’--that points a finger backwards to what has gone before. Others will then do good to us. ), Once upon a time, a wild boar of a jungle was whetting his tusks against the trunk of a tree. iv. Christian beneficence is founded in the noblest of principles--love to our God and Redeemer. Blessed are ye if it be so. 1. ad Hedibim.). The difference here is as broad and as clear and as palpable as that between the stone head of a fountain through which the water flows, and from which you drink, and the loving hand which brings you a cup of water that has been intentionally, thoughtfully, and sympathetically filled for you at that fountain. Translate, “So then, according as (that is, in proportion as) we have season (that is, opportunity), let us work (a distinct Greek verb from that for “do,” in Galatians 6:9) that which is (in each case) good.” As thou art able, and while thou art able, and when thou art able (Ecclesiastes 9:10). (Turpine. II. 1999. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 2013. "We should do good to everyone, whatever their country or religion should be or whatever their physical appearance. In a more general sense it signifies relatives, familiars, friends, associates-the idea of the οἰκία receding into the background, especially when the word is followed by the genitive of an abstract noun. 19.70, vol. that of the whole life, and in it the more convenient part of that time. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/scn/galatians-6.html. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. For a somewhat similar genitive see Galatians 2:7. Does not the subject condemn most of the professed disciples of Christ? In this they did well; but their obligation lay back of their pledge, inasmuch as the voice of God in Scripture and in the love He pours into every regenerate heart is constantly saying, “Do good! ἐργάζομεθα τὸ ἀγαθόν would rather represent the matter as actually taking place (we do it, we hold it so, it is our maxim), and would thus belong to the ideal delineation of Christian life common with the apostle; which might indeed be highly appropriate in its place at the conclusion of a discourse as a note of triumph, but here, in immediate connection with mere exhortations and injunctions, would be somewhat out of place. Shall we not embrace each opportunity in the future? "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/galatians-6.html. For the distinctive force of ἐργάζεσθαι see on 3 John 1:5; and for ποιεῖν todo, see on John 3:21. Sophocl. While you have time! If I could find one that had thus suffered by overgiving, I would make a pilgrimage to that church, and pronounce over it this requiem, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.”, An Eastern legend tells us how Abraham wore round his neck a jewel whose light healed the sick and raised up those who were bowed down, and that when he died it was placed amongst the stars. We have so many today that are working the system, that are abusing the system of welfare, of charity, of being kind to one another. BibliographyRobertson, A.T. "Commentary on Galatians 6:10". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/galatians-6.html. Benefits sometimes accrue to men from their fellow-men without any intention or effort on the part of those who are the channels of good; but being the channel of good or the occasion of doing good, and the willing and active agent, are widely different things. "Work that which is good ..." Strange that Paul should have mentioned this, especially if he had been advocating for five chapters that "works" do not have anything to do with salvation! There are some who seem to have such a sense of property that if they had a hundred magnolia trees in full blossom on their premises, they would want the wind to blow from the north, and south, and east, and west, so that all the fragrance would come into their own house; whereas the true spirit would be a desire that a thousand others should be blessed by these bounties as well as themselves. Now, there is a double link of connection between the preceding words and our text; for ‘do good’ looks back to ‘well-doing,’ and the word rendered ‘opportunity’ is the same as that rendered ‘season.’ So, then, two thoughts arise--’well-doing’ includes doing good to others, and is not complete unless it does. What we must do is look outward to the needs of others. Let us ask ourselves the same and the like questions. 1832. 28. “As we have occasion at any time.”, Copyright StatementThe Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament. Here the ships are crammed into a dock, close up against one another, rubbing their yards upon each other; and away out yonder on the waters there are leagues of loneliness, where never a sail is seen. 2.60. Copyright StatementThe text of this work is public domain. If he does not, let him ask himself whether, in any real sense, he has it. ‘Brotherhood’ is the sequel of ‘Fatherhood,’ and the conception of mankind, beneath all diversities of race and culture and the like, as being an organic whole, knit together by a thousand mystical bands, and each atom of which has connection with, and obligations to, every other--that is a product of Christianity, however it may have been in subsequent ages divorced from a recognition of its source. As this season comes to us, let us sow to the Spirit by doing good. Your capacity is small, it is true, but if you are in Christ it is the capacity of a well. (R. You are bound to lend your voice, however weak it may be, to the protests against the savage treatment of native races--against the drenching of China with narcotics, and Africa with rum; to try to look at the world as Christ looked at it, to rise to the height of that great vision which regards all men as having been in His heart when He died on the Cross, and refuses to recognise in this great work ‘Barbarian, Scythian, bond or free.’ We have awful responsibilities; the world is open to us. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/galatians-6.html. "Commentary on Galatians 6:10". App-150. Broadman Press 1932,33. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/galatians-6.html. Well, Christianity preaches that more emphatically than any other system of thought, morals, or religion does. New York. “I can’t get any new scholars,” said several of the children to themselves. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ice/galatians-6.html. "Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament". BibliographyVincent, Marvin R. DD. ὡς] not ‘while’ (Olsh., al. Brown, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Galatians , p348.]. Keep your work for home, that wants it.’ Well! Renewal 1960. Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia. LXX. 2 “Clem. The example of Christ requires it. The Galatians had been led away from faith in Christ and had begun trusting in various physical works, like circumcision, for justification. 91), and the like in Wetstein, p. 236; Schweigh. If we were in the habit of looking on life mainly as a series of opportunities for well-doing, how different it would be; and how different we should be! The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season. It is not that we are to do it when it is convenient; or when it will advance the interest of a party; or when it may contribute to our fame; the rule is, that we are to do it when we have the opportunity. That is, it is we, through our conceit, pride, and unfriendly behaviour to one another, that really constitute and render this world so unpleasant as it is! “The opportunity to do good,” said Cotton Mather, “imposes the obligation to do it.” The simple rule is, that we are favored with the opportunity, and that we have the power. So of members of an earthly household, 1 Timothy 5:8. ii. He paraphrases the words of Christ: "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." Dindorf; οἰκεῖοι τυραννίδος, Diod. Oh, no! ), Opportunity is like a strip of sand which stretches around a seaside cove. A Brahmin once said to a missionary, ‘Look here! 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 2. BibliographyWesley, John. ), The Church household an especial scene of kind deeds, Every one entering a Church has a right to feel that he is going into a higher atmosphere than that in which he has been accustomed to move. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/galatians-6.html. And you and I have been brought to the Cross of Christ, and made His disciples, not only in order that we ourselves might be blessed and quickened by the gift unspeakable, but in order that through us it may be communicated, just as each particle when leavened in the mass of the dough communicates its energy to its adjacent particle until the whole is leavened. To spend an eternity with him in heaven, morals, or to avoid their fury to rightly use sumptuosity... 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