“to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.”
Galatians 1:5, ESV
“To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Galatians 1:5, KJV
Galatians 1:5 Meaning – To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
This too is new and unusual, for we never find the word, Amen, placed at the beginning of an Epistle, but a good way on; here, however, he has it in his beginning, to shew that what he had already said contained a sufficient charge against the Galatians, and that his argument was complete, for a manifest offence does not require an elaborate crimination.
Having spoken of the Cross, and Resurrection, of redemption from sin and security for the future, of the purpose of the Father, and the will of the Son, of grace and peace and His whole gift, he concludes with an ascription of praise.
Another reason for it is the astonishment into which he was thrown by the exceeding magnitude of the gift, the abounding of grace, the consideration who we were, and what God hath conferred, and that at once and in a single moment of time.
Unable to express this in words, he breaks out into a doxology, and sends forth over the whole world an eulogium, not indeed proportioned to the subject, but to his own power.
Hence too he proceeds to use more vehement language; as if greatly kindled by a sense of the Divine benefits, for having said, To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen, he commences with a more severe reproof.
Chrysostom, John – Commentary on the epistle to the Galatians (407)
