Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...

CHAP. I.

GAlatia was a most brave Province of lesser Asia neere Phrygia.* 1.1 See Acts 18.

The Apostle handleth the same argument here that he doth in the Romans; this is as it were an Epitome of that, and hath many the same sentences, reasons, and phrases with that.

Vers. 1. An Apostle] That is, called or designed to be an Apostle. Paul in his sa∣lutations is wont to stile himselfe an Apostle, that he may win authority to his do∣from his person.

Not of men] as Princes send civill Ambassadors, or as the Jewes sent false Apo∣stles.* 1.2

Neither by man] as Timothy, Titus, Luke, who were ordained by man; or else not by the commendation, paines or instruction of any man.

But by Iesus Christ and God the Father] That is immediately by God. Whosoever will take to him the place of teaching, it behoves him to speake in the name of God or Christ. But because the Galatians did more doubt of Pauls calling, therefore he expresseth more here then in his other Epistles, to assert that. He doth not barely af∣firme that he was called by God, but on the contrary denies that he either received it from men, or by men. He speaks not of the common Offices of Pastors, but of the Apostleship.

Vers. 4. From the present evill World] From bondage under the custome of it;* 1.3 from the fellowship with the men of it, and from the plagues that belong unto it.

Vers. 6. I marvell that ye are so soon removed] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is properly to be trans∣ferred or transported from one place to another, as Plants or Trees are wont to be transported, Hos. 5.10. the Septuagint useth this word, whence the Apostle borrows it. He speaks here of the apostasie or seduction of the Galatians by false Apostles.* 1.4 He alludes (saith Ierome) to the word Galal to roll; as if he should say, You are Ga∣latians that is, rolling and changing, falling from the Gospell of Christ to the law of Moses.

Vers. 8. But though we or an Angell from Heaven preach any other Gospell to you] Plain∣ly implying,* 1.5 that though the person which brings a doctrine were an Angell, yet he must be tried. He doth not say a contrary Gospell, but any other Gospell. That which is directly besides the Gospell, is indirectly against the Gospell; if we be justi∣fied by faith, understanding it exclusively, that is, sola fide, then we are not justified by works.

Vers. 10. Doe I seek to please men?] This interogation is a negation; I do not seek.

* 1.6For if I yet please men] without respect to the pleasing of God, 1 Cor. 10.33. q.d. It is true indeed, once I did seek to please men, but I am now otherwise then I was.

Vers. 18. I went up to Ierusalem to see Peter] From this Greeke word rendred see 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 comes historia,* 1.7 in which things are set before our eyes, as it were.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Vehementiorem in hac quam in aliis Epistolis esse Paulum satis apparet. Tempus quo scripta est haec ad Gallo-graecos Epistola, sicut designatè indicare non possum, ita videre mihi videor non longe abfuisse ab eo tempore quòd ad Romanos scripta est Epistola. Grotius. Illud huic Epistolae familiare, quod (sicut etiam à B. Hieronymo observatum est) ipsa sola, inter tredecim Paulinas non ad unius civitatis fideles scripta est, sed ad totius provinciae. Nam Galatia, non urbis sed regionis nomen est, in Asia minori sitae; in qua teste Augustino Ecclesiae erant innumerabiles. Et Gallo graecia alio nomine votata fuit, quod in eam Graeciae partem Galli quondam ob finium suorum angustiam, commigrassent. Vbi & quando scripta sit haec Epistola, non constat. Estius.
• * 1.2

  Munus hoc mihi neque ab homi∣nibus suopte arbitratu impositum est, neque etiam Dei jussu per meros homines, quomodo multi in Ecclesis ordinati fuere per Apostolos dictante spiritu, ut Matthias ab Apostolis nominatus, sed ab ipso Christo jam extra homines in divina potestate constituto. Christus per evectionem suam in coelum non est homo, nempe qualis fuit, & quales nos sumus, id est, mortales. Grotius.
• * 1.3

  Bifield.
• * 1.4

  Alardi Patho∣logia. N.T.
• * 1.5

  Notanter dicit praetet non contra. Pseudo-Apostoli enim negabant se contra Evange∣lium Christi aliquid decere quia fidem retine••ant, fide nos justificari concedebant. Docebant vero praeter hoc aliud, Etiam legis opera ad salutem esse necessaria. Parau••
• * 1.6

  Nunc] id est, ex quo apostolus factus sum. G••otius.
• * 1.7

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 non est quomodocum∣que videre, sed quomodo spectare aut invisere solemus res aut personas in quibus ob excellentiam multa digna sunt cognitu. Estius.