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**Verse 1**
*Be not entangled again;* do not return again to the bondage of Jewish rites from which you have been delivered.

**Verse 2**
*If ye be circumcised;* if you seek salvation through this rite, and rely upon it as the ground of acceptance with God.

**Verse 3**
*He is a debtor,* &c.; that is, if he depends upon the law for justification, he must obey it in full.

**Verse 4**
*Ye are fallen from grace;* you give up all right to expect or hope for favor or mercy.

**Verse 5**
*Wait for;* depend upon. We are looking to that source as the ground of our reliance.

**Verse 8**
*This persuasion;* this idea that you must come under obligation to the Mosaic law.

**Verse 9**
*A little leaven,* &c.; that is, the error had arisen from the influence of a small number, though it had spread extensively among them.

**Verse 10**
*His judgment;* the just judgment of God.

**Verse 11**
It would seem from this passage that Paul had himself been charged with adhering to the necessity of circumcision.--*Persecution;* that is, from the Jews.--*Is the offence*--ceased; it would cease.

**Verse 13**
*For an occasion to the flesh;* for the indulgence of sinful propensities.

**Verse 16**
*Ye shall not fulfil;* ye will not fulfil.

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