“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. — Paul's opening rebuke ('anoetoi' — foolish, senseless) addresses not intellectual deficiency but spiritual deception; 'bewitched' (baskainō — evil eye) suggests occult-like power, and the reference to Christ 'portrayed as crucified' (proegraph ē staurōmenos) indicates that the cross was central to Paul's foundational preaching, making the Galatians' lapse into legalism a repudiation of what they already knew.
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