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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: what they were intended to convey. They are like spiders that suck venom
out of sweet and fragrant flowers. The poison is not in the flowers, but it is
the nature of the spider to turn what is good and wholesome into poison.
VERSE 15. For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye
would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
The Apostle continues his praise of the Galatians. "You did not only treat
me very courteously. If it had been necessary you would have plucked out
your eyes and sacrificed your lives for me." And in very fact the Galatians
sacrificed their lives for Paul. By receiving and maintaining Paul they
called upon their own heads the hatred and malice of all the Jews and
Gentiles.
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