Teks -- Galatians 5:4 (NET)

5:4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

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Robertson: Gal 5:4 - Ye are severed from Christ

Ye are severed from Christ ( katērgēthēte apo Christou ).

First aorist passive of katargeō , to make null and void as in Rom 7:2, Rom 7:6.

Robertson: Gal 5:4 - Who would be justified by the law

Who would be justified by the law ( hoitines en nomōi dikaiousthe ).

Present passive conative indicative, "ye who are trying to be justified in the law."

Robertson: Gal 5:4 - Ye are fallen away from grace

Ye are fallen away from grace ( tēs charitos exepesate ).

Second aorist active indicative of ekpiptō (with a variable vowel of the first aorist) and followed by the ablative case. "Ye did fall out of grace,""ye left the sphere of grace in Christ and took your stand in the sphere of law"as your hope of salvation. Paul does not mince words and carries the logic to the end of the course. He is not, of course, speaking of occasional sins, but he has in mind a far more serious matter, that of substituting law for Christ as the agent in salvation.

Vincent: Gal 5:4 - Christ is become of no effect unto you

Christ is become of no effect unto you ( κατηργήθητε ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ )

Incorrect. Lit. ye were brought to nought from Christ . Comp. Rom 7:2, Rom 7:6. Your union with Christ is dissolved. The statement is compressed and requires to be filled out. " Ye were brought to nought and so separated from Christ." For similar instances see Rom 9:3; Rom 11:3. The ἀπὸ from properly belongs to the supplied verb of separation. For the verb καταργεῖν see on Rom 3:3.

Vincent: Gal 5:4 - Ye are fallen from grace

Ye are fallen from grace ( τῆς χἁριτος ἐξεπέσατε )

For a similar phrase see 2Pe 3:17. Having put yourselves under the economy of salvation by law, you have fallen out of the economy of salvation by the grace of Christ. Paul's declarations are aimed at the Judaisers, who taught that the Christian economy was to be joined with the legal. His point is that the two are mutually exclusive. Comp. Rom 4:4, Rom 4:5, Rom 4:14, Rom 4:16. The verb ἐκπίπτειν to fall out , in the literal sense, Act 12:7; Jam 1:11. In Class. of seamen thrown ashore, banishment, deprivation of an office, degeneration, of actors being hissed off the stage.

Wesley: Gal 5:4 - Therefore Christ is become of no effect to you

Who seek to be justified by the law.

Wesley: Gal 5:4 - Ye are fallen from grace

Ye renounce the new covenant. Ye disclaim the benefit of this gracious dispensation.

JFB: Gal 5:4

Literally, "Ye have become void from Christ," that is, your connection with Christ has become void (Gal 5:2). Rom 7:2, "Loosed from the law," where the same Greek occurs as here.

JFB: Gal 5:4 - whosoever of you are justified

"are being justified," that is, are endeavoring to be justified.

JFB: Gal 5:4 - by the law

Greek, "IN the law," as the element in which justification is to take place.

JFB: Gal 5:4 - fallen from grace

Ye no longer "stand" in grace (Rom 5:2). Grace and legal righteousness cannot co-exist (Rom 4:4-5; Rom 11:6). Christ, by circumcision (Luk 2:21), undertook to obey all the law, and fulfil all righteousness for us: any, therefore, that now seeks to fulfil the law for himself in any degree for justifying righteousness, severs himself from the grace which flows from Christ's fulfilment of it, and becomes "a debtor to do the whole law" (Gal 5:3). The decree of the Jerusalem council had said nothing so strong as this; it had merely decided that Gentile Christians were not bound to legal observances. But the Galatians, while not pretending to be so bound, imagined there was an efficacy in them to merit a higher degree of perfection (Gal 3:3). This accounts for Paul not referring to the decree at all. He took much higher ground. See PALEY'S Horæ Paulinæ. The natural mind loves outward fetters, and is apt to forge them for itself, to stand in lieu of holiness of heart.

Clarke: Gal 5:4 - Christ is become of no effect unto you

Christ is become of no effect unto you - It is vain for you to attempt to unite the two systems. You must have the law and no Christ, or Christ and no law, for your justification

Clarke: Gal 5:4 - Ye are fallen from grace

Ye are fallen from grace - From the Gospel. They had been brought into the grace of the Gospel; and now, by readopting the Mosaic ordinances, they had apostatized from the Gospel as a system of religion, and had lost the grace communicated to their souls, by which they were preserved in a state of salvation. The peace and love of God, received by Jesus Christ, could not remain in the hearts of those who had rejected Christ. They had, therefore, in every sense of the word, fallen from grace; and whether some of them ever rose again is more than we can tell.

Calvin: Gal 5:4 - Christ has become of no effect unto you

4.Christ has become of no effect unto you. “If ye seek any part of righteousness in the works of the law, Christ has no concern with you, and ye are fallen from grace. ” They were not so grossly mistaken as to believe that by the observance of the law alone they were justified, but attempted to mix Christ with the law. In any other point of view, Paul’s threatenings would have utterly failed to produce alarm. “What are you doing? You deprive yourselves of every advantage from Christ, and treat his grace as if it were of no value whatever.” We see then that the smallest part of justification cannot be attributed to the law without renouncing Christ and his grace.

Defender: Gal 5:4 - fallen from grace

Here Paul is not discussing the security of one's salvation but rather the two different proposed ways of achieving salvation. If we propose to earn salvation by the works of the law, we thereby reject the free grace of Christ, and He is cut off from saving us. In this sense only have we "fallen from grace." We are both saved by grace and kept saved by grace. We cannot cancel the grace which gives salvation by failing to keep working for it, for works could never earn God's grace in the first place."

TSK: Gal 5:4 - is // justified // ye

is : Gal 5:2, Gal 2:21; Rom 9:31, Rom 9:32, Rom 10:3-5

justified : Rom 3:20, Rom 4:4, Rom 4:5

ye : Gal 1:6-9; Rom 11:6; Heb 6:4-6, Heb 10:38, Heb 10:39, Heb 12:15; 2Pe 2:20-22, 2Pe 3:17, 2Pe 3:18; Rev 2:5

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Poole: Gal 5:4 - are justified by the law // Ye are fallen from grace

The word here translated become of no effect is used Rom 3:3 . By those who

are justified by the law are to be understood such as seek or desire to be justified by the law, for actually none is so justified. The sense is: Whoever seeketh to be justified by the works of the law, he disclaimeth the righteousness of Christ; to him Christ’ s death signifieth nothing, nor is of any virtue at all. For he had told us before, Gal 2:21 : If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain: and Rom 8:3,4 : What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, & c. The very end of Christ’ s coming and dying was to supply us with a righteousness, which (apprehended by faith) should be reckoned to us as ours, wherein we might stand before God. Which end of Christ’ s death had been frustrated, if, through our flesh, there had not been such a weakness or impotency in the law as to justification. So as if any still looked for justification by performance of the law, as such made the death of Christ in vain, because if such a thing could have been done that way there had been no need of Christ’ s dying; so they also made it, which was not in vain in itself, yet in vain and of no effect to their souls, because Christ would not be a partial cause in the justification of a soul.

Ye are fallen from grace and they, by this, renounced the grace of God exhibited in the gospel, and fell from the grace of it. For by grace here is not to be understood a state of grace, (from which none can fall totally and finally), but the grace of the gospel; by which is signified the free love of God in it exhibited, offering Christ to sinners for righteousness.

PBC: Gal 5:4

This passage describes a condition that obtained among the Galatians as a result of being drawn away by the error of Legalism. In particular, the " grace" they fell from consisted of the virtuous influence and liberty that accompanies the reception of the gospel.

Previously, Paul expressed his astonishment that these brethren which formerly appeared to be established in gospel teaching had now so quickly been led astray. {Ga 1:6} Their acceptance of the error was so pervasive that he states: " I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." Ga 4:11

In Ga 5:1 Paul exhorts: " Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."

Reputable expositors generally agree that the above refers to gospel liberty that believers enjoy. According to Paul, liberty is one of the grand privileges of the gospel. But, he also warned that those enjoying such liberty could " fall" from that blessed privilege should they become entangled by error. He therefore says of those that had been negatively influenced by the teaching of the Legalists: " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."

The error of the Legalists certainly produced an evil effect among the Galatians. Hence, he goes on to say, " This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you." Ga 5:8

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Haydock: Gal 5:4

If you think that justice cannot be obtained but under the law, you make a renunciation of the justice of Christ: his mediation becomes of no avail to you. (Calmet)

Gill: Gal 5:4 - Christ is become of no effect unto you // whosoever of you are justified by the law // ye are fallen from grace

Christ is become of no effect unto you,.... Or "ye are abolished from Christ"; or as others by an "hypallage" read the words, "Christ is abolished unto you"; for by their seeking for justification by their own works, it was all one to them as if there was no Christ, and no righteousness in him, and no salvation by him; they had nothing to do with him, nor he with them:

whosoever of you are justified by the law; that is, who sought to be justified by their obedience to the law, or who thought they were, and trusted in themselves that they were righteous; for otherwise, by the deeds of the law, no flesh living can be justified:

ye are fallen from grace; that is, either from that grace which they professed to have; for there might be some in these churches, as in others, who were only nominal Christians, and formal professors; who had declared they saw themselves lost and undone sinners, destitute of a righteousness, and professed to believe in Christ alone for righteousness and strength, but now trusted in themselves, and in the works of the law: or from the scheme of grace in the whole of man's salvation, which will admit of no mixture of works; either it is one or the other, it cannot be both; wherefore by their taking on the side of works, they showed that they had entirely dropped the scheme of grace: or else from the Gospel of the grace of God, from whence they were removed, through the influence of false teachers; particularly the doctrine of free justification by the grace of God, through the righteousness of Christ; which was entirely set aside by their seeking to be instilled by the works of the law; and from this they might be said to be fallen, who were on such a bottom.