Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Galatians: Chapter 1].
\huper\ of persons. {Deliver} (\exel•tai\). Second aorist middle
subjunctive (final clause with \hop•s\) of \exaire•\, old verb to
pluck out, to rescue (Ac 23:27). "Strikes the keynote of the
epistle. The gospel is a rescue, an emancipation from a state of
bondage" (Lightfoot). {Out of this present evil world} (\ek tou
ai•nos tou enest•tos pon•rou\). Literally, "out of the age the
existing one being evil." The predicate position of \pon•rou\
calls emphatic attention to it. Each word here is of interest and
has been already discussed. See on ¯Mt 13:22 for \ai•n\, Mt
6:23 for \pon•ros\. \Enest•tos\ is genitive masculine singular
of \enest•s\ second perfect (intransitive) participle of
\enist•mi\ for which see on ¯2Th 2:12; 1Co 3:22; 7:26. It is
present as related to future (Ro 8:38; Heb 9:9). {According to
the will of God} (\kata to thel•ma tou theou\). Not according to
any merit in us.
1:5 {To whom be the glory} (\h•i h• doxa\). No verb in the Greek.
For like doxologies see Ro 9:5; 11:36; 16:27; Eph 3:21; 1Ti
1:17.
1:6 {Ye are so quickly removing} (\hout•s tache•s
metatithesthe\). The present middle indicative of \metatith•mi\,
to change places, to transfer. "You are transferring yourselves"
and doing it "so quickly" either from the time of their
conversion or most likely from the time when the Judaizers came
and tempted them. So easily some of them are falling victims to
these perverters of the gospel. That is a continuous amazement
(\thaumaz•\) to Paul and to men today that so many are so silly
and so gullible to modern as to ancient charlatans. {Unto a
different gospel} (\eis heteron euaggelion\). See on ¯2Co 11:4
for distinction between \allo\ and \heteron\ as here. It is not
here or there a mere difference in emphasis or spirit as in ¯Php
1:18 so long as Christ is preached. These men as in 2Co 11:4
preach "another Jesus" and a "different gospel" and so have
fallen away from grace and have done away with Christ (Ga 5:4).
Hence the vehemence of Paul's words.
1:7 {Which is not another} (\ho ouk estin allo\). It is no
"gospel" (good news) at all, but a yoke of bondage to the law and
the abolition of grace. There is but one gospel and that is of
grace, not works. The relative \ho\ (which) refers to \heteron
euaggelion\ (a different gospel) "taken as a single term and
designating the erroneous teachings of the Judaizers" (Burton).
{Only} (\ei m•\). Literally, "except," that is, "Except in this
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