“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,”
Galatians 1:3, ESV
“Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,”
Galatians 1:3, KJV
- Galatians 1:3 Meaning – Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ
- Galatians 1:3 Meaning – God our Father
- Galatians 1:3 Meaning – and the Lord Jesus Christ
Galatians 1:3 Meaning – Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ
This he always mentions as indispensable; and in this Epistle to the Galatians especially, he prays that they may recover that grace which they had well nigh fallen from; he implores God, with whom they were at enmity, to restore them to His peace.
Chrysostom, John – Commentary on the epistle to the Galatians (407)
Galatians 1:3 Meaning – God our Father
Here is a plain confutation of the heretics, who say that John in the opening of his Gospel, where he says the Word was God, used the word θεός without the article, to imply an inferiority in the Son’s Godhead; and that Paul, where he says that the Son was in the form of God, did not mean the Father, because the word θεός is without the article.
For what can they say here, where Paul says, ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς, and not ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ?
And it is in no indulgent mood towards them that he says God the Father, but by way of severe rebuke, and suggestion of the source whence they became sons, for the honour was vouchsafed to them not through the Law, but through the Bath of regeneration.
Thus every where, even in his exordium, he scatters traces of the mercy of God, and we may conceive him speaking thus: “O ye who were lately slaves, enemies and aliens, what right have ye suddenly acquired to call God your Father? it was not the Law which conferred upon you this affinity; why do ye therefore desert Him who brought you so near to God, and return to your schoolmaster? for were ye not subject to a schoolmaster?”
Chrysostom, John – Commentary on the epistle to the Galatians (407)
Galatians 1:3 Meaning – and the Lord Jesus Christ
But the Name of the Son, as well as that of the Father, had been sufficient to declare to them these blessings.
This will appear, if we consider the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with attention; for it is said, thou shall call His Name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins; and the appellation of “Christ” calls, to mind the unction of the Spirit.
Chrysostom, John – Commentary on the epistle to the Galatians (407)
