Galatians 5:8

8 The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

Galatians 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 5:8

This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
] That is, the opinion they were persuaded to believe; and which the Syriac version renders, (Nwkoyp) , "your persuasion"; this is not of God, who had called them into the grace of Christ; nor of Christ, who had called them to the knowledge of himself, and communion with him; nor of the Spirit of Christ, who had called them with an holy calling, and who still continued to call them to repentance; nor of any faithful minister of the Gospel, who had been concerned as an instrument in their effectual calling; meaning the notion they were persuaded to give into, that circumcision and the works of the law were necessary to salvation, and that these were to be joined with the righteousness of Christ for justification; such a conceit as this could never be of God, nor any evangelical minister, but must be of Satan or his emissaries, the false apostles.

Galatians 5:8 In-Context

6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

7 Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

8 The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

10 *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

Footnotes

• [a] Or 'the persuasion.'