15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

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

17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you,10 that ye might affect them.

18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I a travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

9 What was then. A. V.

10 exclude us. A. V.

should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts..

MAT. X. 40: He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. LUKE, X. 16: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. JOHN, xiii. 20: He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 1 THES. ii. 13: When ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 2 PET. iii. 2: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.

w] KINGS, Xxii. 8: The king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.

* See on GAL. ii. 5, 14.

Y ROM. X. 2: I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 2 Cor. xi. 2: I am jealous over you with godly jealousy.

21 Cor. xv. 58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you." 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the bone by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman d was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

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24 e Which things are an allegory: 12 for these are the two covenants; 13 the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth 15 to bondage, which is Agar.

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14 Gr. Sina. A. V.

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12 are figurative. Pu. testa15 beareth children. We.

b GEN. xvi. 15: Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

GEN. xviii. 10, 14: And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. do. xxi. 1, 2: And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son [Isaac] in his old age. HEB. xi. 11: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age.

d JOHN, viii. 39: If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. ROм. ix. 7, 8: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

e1 COR. x. 11: Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

f DEUT. xxxiii. 2: And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to 16 Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage 17 with her children.

26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise."

16 is in the same rank with. A, V.

17 servitude: so ver. 24. Pu.

18 after the manner of Isaac are the children of promise. Pu.

ISA. ii. 2: It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. do. lii. 1: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. HEB. xi. 10: He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. do. xii. 22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. do. xiii. 14: Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. REV. iii. 12: I will write upon him [that overcometh] the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God. do. xxi. 2, 10: I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. He carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. do. xxii. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

h ISA. liv. 1: Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

ACTS, iii. 25: Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Roм. ix. 7, 8: The words under ver. 23: GAL. iii, 29.

29 But as then he that was born after the flesh * persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, 1 even so it is now.

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30 Nevertheless what saith the Scripture? " Cast out the bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, P but of the free.

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1 He moveth them to stand in their liberty, 3 and not to observe circumcision: 13 but rather love, which is the sum of the law: 19 he reckon th up the works of the flesh, 22 and the fruits of the Spirit, 25 and exhorteth to walk in the Spirit.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be

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* GEN. xxi. 9: Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

'JOHN, XV. 19: If ye were of the world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. GAL. v. 11: do. vi. 12: As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. m GAL. iii. 8, 22.

" GEN. xxi. 10, 12: Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

JOHN, viii. 35: The servant abideth not in the house for ever but the Son abideth ever.

P JOHN, viii. 36: If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. GAL. v. 1, 13.

d circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do 2 the whole law.

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4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

2 bound to keep. Co. Ma. Cr. Gen.

d ACTS, xv. 1: Certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. See on Acrs, xvi. 3.

GAL. iii. 10: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

f Rom. ix. 31, 32: Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. GAL. ii. 21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

8 See on 2 COR. vi. 1.

h ROM. viii. 24, 25: For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. GAL. iii. 9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 2 TIM. iv. 8: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

GAL. iii. 28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for are all one in Christ Jesus. See on 1 COR. vii. 19.

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JOHN, vi. 29: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. do. xvii. 3: This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,