{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5510","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 7.) You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? The Latin translator, in his interpretation, put 'not obeying the truth', which is written in Greek as 'τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μὴ πείθεσθαι'. He interpreted it in the previous place as 'not believing the truth', which we noted in its proper place because it is not found in ancient manuscripts, although the Greek copies have been confused by this error. The meaning of the passage is: You were worshiping the Father in spirit and truth, and you were receiving from the fullness of Christ, knowing that the law was given only to the people through Moses and not made as well. But grace and truth came through Jesus Christ, not only given but also accomplished. So, since you were running so well, serving the truth rather than the images, why do you, hindered by a distorted teacher, follow the shadow of the Law and abandon the truth of the Gospel? It follows.</p><p>You have not reached a consensus with anyone. But since we have not found this written either in Greek books or in those who have commented on the Apostle, it seems that it should be disregarded.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: This is not an interrogation, but an expression of doubt and sorrow. How hath such a course been cut short? who hath been able to do this? ye who were superior to all and in the rank of teachers, have not even continued in the position of disciples. What has happened? who could do this? these are rather the words of one who is exclaiming and lamenting, as he said before, \"Who did bewitch you?\" (Gal. iii: 1.)<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 5</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"who hindered you?\" The \"who\" is not of one asking, but of one sorrowful, as if he had said: You were reaching perfection, what has happened? Who has had such power as to prevent you from obeying the truth of the Gospel?<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: They bear in mind how the churches were rebuked by the apostle: \"O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? \" and, \"Ye did run so well; who hath hindered you? \" and how the epistle actually begins: \"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him, who hath called you as His own in grace, to another gospel.<br/><i>— The Prescription Against Heretics</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0ba99488c80f8de7857fb7a3e89527f05d7eac27c491fb65b28655d37f96a95c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5510,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"933ab99da0fef35d686f4438eaedf10bfabbbd7df066361be0b65b0893599c12","translator":null,"work":null}