Galaten 4:13

Staten Vertaling

En gij weet, dat ik u door zwakheid des vleses het Evangelie de eerste maal verkondigd heb;

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
gij weet dat ik den eersten keer in zieken toestand u de Blijmare verkondigd heb,

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
maar gij weet, dat ik u in zwakheid van het vlees het evangelie voorheen gepredikt heb,

Bible Verse Review
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through: 1 Corinthians 2:3, 2 Corinthians 10:10, 2 Corinthians 11:6, 2 Corinthians 11:30, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, 2 Corinthians 13:4

at: Galatians 1:6, Acts 16:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:40 - hair is fallen off his head Matthew 18:10 - heed Acts 20:19 - with all 2 Corinthians 4:7 - in Galatians 4:14 - ye Hebrews 4:2 - unto us Hebrews 5:2 - is compassed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye know how, through infirmity of the flesh,.... Meaning either their infirmity, to which the apostle accommodated himself in preaching the Gospel to them, delivering it in such a manner as suited with their capacities, feeding them with milk, and not with strong meat; or his own infirmity, respecting either some particular bodily infirmity and disorder, as the headache, with which he is said to be greatly troubled; or the weakness of his bodily presence, the mean outward appearance he made, the contemptibleness of his voice, and the great humility with which he behaved; or rather the many reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions which attended him, when, says he,

I preached the Gospel unto you at the first; not the law, but the Gospel; and this he did at his first entrance among them, and was the first that preached it to them, and was the means of their conversion; and therefore, being their spiritual Father, they ought to be as he was, and follow him as they had him for an example.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye know how - To show them the folly of their embracing the new views which they had adopted, he reminds them of past times, and particularly of the strength of the attachment which they had evinced for him in former days.

Through infirmity of the flesh - Greek “Weakness” (ἀσθένειαν astheneian); compare the 1 Corinthians 2:3 note; 2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 12:7 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. Ye know how through infirmity — The apostle seems to say that he was much afflicted in body when he first preached the Gospel to them. And is this any strange thing, that a minister, so laborious as St. Paul was, should be sometimes overdone and overcome by the severity of his labours? Surely not. This might have been only an occasional affliction, while labouring in that part of Asia Minor; and not a continual and incurable infirmity, as some have too hastily conjectured.