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Galatians

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Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. See also: Romans 15:1 2 Timothy 2:25 2 Thessalonians 3:15Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. See also: Romans 15:1 1 Thessalonians 5:14 John 13:34For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. See also: Proverbs 26:12 1 Corinthians 8:2 1 Corinthians 3:18But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. See also: 2 Corinthians 13:5 Psalms 26:2 1 Corinthians 11:28For each man will bear his own burden. See also: Jeremiah 32:19 Romans 14:10-12 2 Corinthians 5:10-11But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches. See also: 1 Timothy 5:17-18 Romans 15:27 Deuteronomy 12:19Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. See also: 2 Corinthians 9:6 Hosea 10:12 Job 4:8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. See also: Romans 8:13 James 3:18 2 Peter 2:19Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up. See also: 1 Corinthians 15:58 2 Thessalonians 3:13 Isaiah 40:30-31So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith. See also: Hebrews 13:16 Proverbs 3:27 1 Thessalonians 5:15See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand. See also: 1 Corinthians 16:21-23 Romans 16:22As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. See also: Galatians 5:11 Acts 15:1 2 Corinthians 11:13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh. See also: Philippians 3:3 1 Corinthians 5:6 2 Peter 2:19But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. See also: Romans 6:6 Galatians 2:20 Jeremiah 9:23-24For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. See also: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Colossians 3:10-11 Galatians 5:6As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel. See also: Galatians 3:29 Philippians 3:3 Romans 9:6-8From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body. See also: 2 Corinthians 1:5 Colossians 1:24 2 Corinthians 11:23-25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. See also: 2 Timothy 4:22 Philemon 1:25 2 Corinthians 13:14

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Galatians 6:2

Ver. 2. One another's burdens. This is not contrary to what is added v. 5, that every one shall bear his own burden, because in the first place the sense is, that we must bear patiently with one another's faults and imperfections; in the second, that every one must answer for himself at God's tribunal. Wi. — Every one has his failings and weaknesses, and stands in need of indulgence from his brethren; he must, therefore, grant to them what he so much desires to receive from them. Calmet.

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Galatians 6:6

Ver. 6. Communicate . . . in all good things: by this communication, is understood an assisting of others in their wants. Wi. — Such as are blessed with the goods of this world, should gladly communicate a share of their efforts to the preachers and teachers of the true faith; and this not merely as a return for what they have received, but also that they may be made thereby partakers of their merit. S. Aug. l. 2. evang. quæst. q. 8.

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Galatians 6:7

Ver. 7. This is addressed to the avaricious, who, under various pretexts, excused themselves from contributing to the support of their teachers. But they are here informed, that their excuses will not screen them from the anger of God. Calmet.

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Galatians 6:8

Ver. 8. He that soweth in his flesh, &c. The apostle represents the flesh and the spirit like two fields, on which men sow good or bad seed, according to which they shall reap. Wi.

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Galatians 6:9

Ver. 9. Works of mercy are the seed of life everlasting, and the proper cause thereof, and not faith only.

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Galatians 6:10

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 10. The household of the faith: those who profess the same true faith. Wi.

— We are more bound to assist Christians than Jews; Catholics than heretics.

S. Jerom, q. 1. ad Hedibim.

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Galatians 6:11

Ver. 11. What a letter I have written . . . with my own hand. S. Jerom understands this of what he is now beginning to write, the rest being written by the hand of another. Others understand the whole letter. Wi. — S. Chrys.

Theophylact, and Theodoret, suppose that the apostle wrote the whole epistle with his own hand, and here excuses himself for writing so ill the Grecian letters, which were so very different from those of his native language. But S.

Jerom understands, that he wrote only this latter part of the epistle, as a testimony that the whole came from him. Calmet.

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Galatians 6:12–13

Ver. 12-13. He tells them the false teachers would have them circumcised first, to avoid persecution from the Jewish party; and secondly to glory in having made them their proselytes. Wi.

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Galatians 6:14

Ver. 14. As for my part, I will glory in nothing but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, but in Christ crucified. Wi.

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Galatians 6:15

Ver. 15. But a new creature; but to be born anew, to receive the spiritual life of grace. Wi.

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Galatians 6:17

Ver. 17. I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body, by the stripes and wounds I have received for preaching the gospel. Wi. — Formerly it was not unusual to stamp certain characters on the bodies of soldiers, fugitives, and of domestics, purposely to distinguish them. —— There are three principal parts in this epistle. The first is the history of the vocation of S. Paul, c. i. and ii.; the second is on justification and the abrogation of the law; the third is an exhortation to persevere in Christian liberty, to avoid its abuse, and to perform the various duties of a Christian.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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