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Galatians 6:11
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Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting.
Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine owne hand.
Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand!
See what large letters I use to write this myself.
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand!
See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!
You can see what big letters I make when I write with my own hand.
Look at the large letters I use as I close in my own handwriting.
See how long a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
This is my own handwriting. You can see how big the letters are.
You can see how long a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
See what big letters I make as I write to you now with my own hand!
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
See in what large letters I write to you with my hand.
See with how large letters I write unto you with mine own hand.
See the size of the handwriting which I myself have made use of in writing to you.
See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand!
You see these letters which I have written to you with my hands.
Behold, this epistle have I written to you with my own hand.
Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with myne owne hande.
See with how large letters I have written unto you with mine own hand.
See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Ye see how large a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
See in what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
Se ye, what maner lettris Y haue write to you with myn owne hoond.
See with how large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Ye see how large a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!
See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand!
Notice what large letters i use as i write these closing words in my own handwriting.
See what big letters I make when I write to you with my own hand.
See what large letters I make when I am writing in my own hand!
See! with what large letters, unto you, I have written, with my own hand: -
See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
Beholde how large a letter I have written vnto you with myne awne honde.
Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;
Beholde, with how many wordes I haue wrytten vnto you with myne awne hande.
You see how long a letter I have writ to you with my own hand.
Now, in these last sentences, I want to emphasize in the bold scrawls of my personal handwriting the immense importance of what I have written to you. These people who are attempting to force the ways of circumcision on you have only one motive: They want an easy way to look good before others, lacking the courage to live by a faith that shares Christ's suffering and death. All their talk about the law is gas. They themselves don't keep the law! And they are highly selective in the laws they do observe. They only want you to be circumcised so they can boast of their success in recruiting you to their side. That is contemptible!
See these big letters I'm writing to you with my own hand!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
written: Romans 16:22, 1 Corinthians 16:21-23
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 29:1 - of the letter Philemon 1:19 - I Paul Hebrews 13:22 - for
Cross-References
So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.
He was a mightie hunter before the Lord. wherefore it is saide, As Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lord.
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.
But because thine heart did melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, sayth the Lorde.
The Lorde will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate.
Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.
For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
Violence shall no more be heard of in thy land, neither desolation, nor destructio within thy borders: but thou shalt call saluation, thy walles, and praise, thy gates.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye see how large a letter,.... Whether it be read as imperative, "see ye", observe, take notice; or as indicative, "ye see", ye do see, or you may see with your own eyes, it is of no great consequence: "how large a letter", or "with what letters"; which some understand of the largeness of the characters he wrote in; others of the deformity of them, he not writing a good hand, being an Hebrew, and not used to writing Greek; others of the grand and sublime matter which it contained; though neither of these seem to be the apostle's meaning; but he intends the length of the epistle, the prolixity of his writing; and which he mentions, as an instance and expression of his love to then, care of them, and concern for them: inasmuch as he took so much pains to write so long a letter to them, in order to set things right in their view, and recover them from error: not but that he had sent as long, or longer letters to other churches, as to the Romans, the Corinthians, and Hebrews: but then it is to be observed what follows,
I have written unto you with my own hand. The epistle to the Romans was written by Tertius, though dictated by the apostle, Romans 16:22 as very likely the others were by Timothy, or some other amanuensis. The apostle only put his name, and wrote his salutation, which was his token, in all his epistles, of the truth and genuineness of them; 2 Thessalonians 3:17, but this was not only dictated by him, but wrote with his hand, which very probably the Galatians knew; and since it was not usual for him to do so, it was the greater proof of his affection for them; that amidst so much work, and such labours as he was employed in, he should sit down and write so long an epistle to them with his own hand, in order to expose the errors of the false teachers, and reclaim them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ye see - This might be rendered see, in the imperative. So Tyndale renders it, “Behold.” But it is more commonly supposed that it should be rendered in the indicative. The sense is not materially different whichever translation is adopted. The object of the apostle is, to direct their attention to the special proof of his love, which he had manifested in writing such a letter.
How large a letter - Considerable variety has existed in regard to the interpretation of this phrase. The word used here and translated “how large” (πηλίκος pēlikos), means. properly, “how great.” Some have supposed that it refers to the size of the letters which Paul made in writing the Epistle - the length and crudeness of the characters which he used. Such interpreters suppose that he was not well versed in writing Greek, and that he used large letters. and those somewhat rudely made, like the Hebrew. So Doddridge and Whitby interpret it; and so Theodoret, Jerome, Theophylact, and some others. He might not, says Doddridge, have been well versed in the Greek characters; or “this inaccuracy of his writings might have been owing to the infirmity or weakness of his nerves, which he had hinted at before.” Jerome says, that Paul was a Hebrew, and that he was unacquainted with the mode of writing Greek letters; and that because necessity demanded that he should write a letter in his own hand, contrary to his usual custom, he was obliged to form his characters in this crude manner. According to this interpretation, it was:
- A pledge to the Galatians that the Epistle was genuine, since it bore the marks of his own handwriting; and,
- It was proof of special affection for them that he was willing to undergo this labor on their account.
Others suppose that he means to refer to the size of the Epistle which he had written. Such is the interpretation of Grotius, Koppe, Bloomfield, Clarke, Locke, Chandler, and is, indeed, the common interpretation, as it is the obvious one. According to this, it was proof of special interest in them, and regard for them, that he had written to them a whole letter with his own hand. Usually he employed an amanuensis, and added his name, with a brief benediction or remark at the close; see the Romans 16:22 note; 1 Corinthians 16:21 note. What induced him to depart from his usual custom here is unknown. Jerome supposes that he refers here to what follows from this verse to the end of the Epistle, as that which he had written with his own hand, but the word ἔγραψα egrapsa, says Rosenmuller, refers rather to what he had written, than to that which he intended to write. On this verse, the reader may consult with advantage, Tholuck on the Life and Writings of Paul: German Selections, by Edwards and Park, Andover, 1839, pp. 35, 64, 65.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. Ye see how large a letter — There is a strange diversity of opinions concerning the apostle's meaning in this place. Some think he refers to the length of the epistle, others to the largeness of the letters in which this epistle is written, others to the inadequacy of the apostle's writing. It appears plain that most of his epistles were written by an amanuensis, and simply subscribed by himself; but the whole of the Epistle to the Galatians was written by his own hand. To say that the apostle was unskilled in Greek, and especially in the Greek characters, is in my opinion absurd. He was born in Tarsus, a city which, according to Strabo, rivalled both Athens and Alexandria in philosophy, and in arts and sciences; and therefore he could not be ignorant of a tongue which must have been the very means of conveying all this instruction. As to writing it, there was in his time nothing difficult, because the uncial character was that which was alone in use in those days, and this character is as easily made as the capitals in the Roman alphabet, which have been taken from it. I conclude, therefore, that what the apostle says must be understood of the length of the epistle, in all probability the largest he had ever written with his own hand; though several, much larger, have been dictated by him, but they were written by his scribe or amanuensis.
