“This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? — Paul's rhetorical question is pedagogical: the Galatians' own experience of Spirit reception ('lambano pneuma') through faith ('akoe pisteos' — hearing of faith) is the empirical refutation of the Judaizers' claim that law-observance is necessary for Christian standing; their conversion was manifestly grace-powered, not law-achieved.
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