17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. …
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-18)The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the Gal. 4:12-16, which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour towards him who endeavoured to establish them in it, he here gives them the character of those false teachers who made it their business to…
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