And they glorified God in me.
] Or "for me"; on his account; for the wonderful grace bestowed
on him and wrought in him; for the surprising change that was
made in him, that of a persecutor he should become a preacher,
which they ascribed, as he himself did, to the abundant grace of
God; they were greatly thankful and blessed God, who had given
him such large gifts, and made him so greatly useful in the
cause, and among the churches of Christ. And by observing this,
how much the churches in Judea were affected with the grace of
God vouchsafed to him, though they had never seen him nor heard
him, he tacitly strikes at and rebukes the false teachers, and
the Galatians that adhered to them, for their different treatment
of him; to whom he was not only known by face, but had preach
among them so fully, clearly, and powerfully, the Gospel of the
grace of God.