ACC ~ Galatians 3 v4

REPRIMAND AND ADMONITION. MARIUS VICTORINUS: Such a subtle comment requires patience to understand. It both negatively reprimands and positively admonishes. He reprimands them by saying “You have suffered so much in vain.” At the same time he admonishes them by saying “you have suffered so much,” aware that they withstood many things with fortitude when they received faith. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 1.3.4.

THE PRIZE OF PERSEVERANCE. MARIUS VICTORINUS: Lest he should seem to despair needlessly, he has corrected his own reprimand by saying “if indeed it is in vain.” For they could be corrected. If so, what they have suffered will not be without meaning. The meaning they will have will be perseverance in faith, the prize and the confirmation of promises derived from faith in Christ. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 1.3.4.

THEIR FORMER SUFFERING MADE USELESS BY THEIR RETURN TO LEGALISTIC BONDAGE. AMBROSIASTER: At that time believers were subject to reproach from others, whether at home or abroad, being pointed out as guilty of treason. Hence the Galatians, who had likewise suffered a great deal, were more perverse than those who had been spared, because they had lost the merit of their suffering by their resubmission to the law. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.4.

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