“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? — Paul's rhetorical question turns on the Judaizers' likely accusation: by refusing to endorse law-observance and by confronting the Galatians' reversion, Paul is branded an enemy, yet his enemy-status flows from truth-telling, making the Galatians' rejection a tragic inversion.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:16
“Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? For I bear you witness, that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me. So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Here he shows perplexity and amazement, and desires to learn of themselves the reason of their change. Who, says he, has deceived you, and caused a difference in your disposition towards me? Are you not the same who attended and ministered to me, counting me more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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