the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Galatians 5:12
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I wish that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves.
I wish that those who are upsetting you would even mutilate themselves.
I wish these people who keep harassing you about circumcision would just try to be an example and go all the way. Why stop at the tip? Let 'em castrate themselves, too. Maybe then their lies wouldn't reproduce.
My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.
I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.
I wish those who are disturbing you might also get themselves castrated!
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
Then is the offence of the cross ceased. I would they were even cut off that trouble you.
Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves.
I would they were euen cut off which trouble you.
O that the ones causing you to doubt will sever themselves.
Wolde God they were roted out fro amoge you, which trouble you.
I wish they who unsettle you were entirely circumcised.
I wish that those who are troubling you [by teaching that circumcision is necessary for salvation] would even [go all the way and] castrate themselves!
I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves!
I wolde to God they were seperated from you which trouble you.
I would that those that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
I would they were even cut off who trouble you.
O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
I wish the people who are bothering you would castrate themselves!
I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
I wish that everyone who is upsetting you would not only get circumcised, but would cut off much more!
I wish the people who are bothering you would go the whole way and castrate themselves!
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Would to God they were euen cut off, which doe disquiet you.
I wish those who are troubling you would be expelled.
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
I wish that those who are unsettling you would castrate themselves!Joshua 7:25; Acts 15:1-2,24; 1 Corinthians 5:13; Galatians 1:8-9;">[xr]
But I would that they who disturb you were even cut off.
But I would, that they who disquiet you, were actually cut off.
I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!
I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.
I wish those who are so willing to cut your bodies would complete the job by cutting themselves off from you.
I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off.
I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!
Oh! that they would even leave off in dismay, who are unsettling you!
I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
I wish that the ones who are disturbing you would also castrate themselves!
I woulde to God they were cut of which trouble you.
I wish those people who are bothering you would add castration to their circumcision.
I wish that those who are troubling you would even emasculate themselves.
I wish that the people who are upsetting you would go all the way; let them go on and castrate themselves!
Y wolde that thei weren cut awei, that disturblen you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cut: Galatians 5:10, Galatians 1:8, Galatians 1:9, Genesis 17:14, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 30:33, Leviticus 22:3, Joshua 7:12, Joshua 7:25, John 9:34, Acts 5:5, Acts 5:9, 1 Corinthians 5:13, Titus 3:10
trouble: Acts 15:1, Acts 15:2, Acts 15:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 30:34 - General 1 Samuel 26:19 - cursed Matthew 26:10 - Why Acts 15:19 - that Galatians 1:7 - but Galatians 2:4 - because Galatians 6:17 - let
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. These words are a solemn wish of the apostle's with respect to the false teachers, or an imprecation of the judgment of God upon them; that they might be cut off out of the land of the living by the immediate hand of God, that they might do no more mischief to the churches of Christ: this he said not out of hatred to their persons, but from a concern for the glory of God, and the good of his people. The word here used answers to the Hebrew word קפח, and which is often made use of by the Jews in solemn imprecations; we read o of a righteous man, מקפח את בניו, "that cut off his children": the gloss upon it is,
"he used to say, when he made any imprecation, אקפח את בני, "may I cut off my children";''
that is, may they die, may they be cut off by the hand of God, and I bury them;
"says R. Tarphon p, may my children be "cut off", if these books of heretics come into my hands, that I will burn them;''
and says the same Rabbi q may I "cut off" my children, or may my children be cut off, if this sentence or constitution is cut off, or should perish. There is another use of this word, which may have a place here, for it sometimes signifies to confute a person, or refute his notion r.
"It is a tradition of the Rabbius, that after the departure of R. Meir, R. Judah said to his disciples, let not the disciples of R. Meir come in hither, for they are contentious; and not to learn the law do they come, but
לקפחני בהלכות, "to cut me off"; (i.e. as the gloss says, to show how sharp they are that none can stand against them;) to confute and overcome me, by their sentences, or constitutions.''
So the apostle here might wish that the mouths of these false teachers were stopped, their notions refuted, that they might give them no more trouble; to which agrees the Arabic version; "they that trouble you I wish they were dumb"; or that their mouths were stopped, as such vain talkers should be; see Titus 1:10 or the sense of the apostle is, that it was his will and desire that these men should be cut off from the communion of the church; with which views he mentions the proverbial expression in Galatians 5:9 with which compare 1 Corinthians 5:6 or that they would cut themselves off, by withdrawing from them, going out from among them, and leaving them as these men sometimes did.
o T. Bab. Bava Metzia, fol. 85. 1. p T. Bab. Sabbat, fol, 116. 1. q T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 17. 1. Misn. Oholot, c. 16. sect. 1. & Maimon, in Bartenora in ib. r T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 52. 2. Nazir, fol. 49. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I would they were even cut off - That is, as I understand it, from the communion of the church. So far am I, says Paul, from agreeing with them, and preaching the necessity of circumcision as they do, that I sincerely wish they were excluded from the church as unworthy a place among the children of God. For a very singular and monstrous interpretation of this passage, though adopted by Chrysostom, Theodoret, Theophylact, Jerome, Grotius, Rosenmuller, Koppe, and others, the learned reader may consult Koppe on this verse. To my amazement, I find that this interpretation has also been adopted by Robinson in his Lexicon, on the word ἀποκόπτω apokoptō. I will state the opinion in the words of Koppe. “Non modo circumcidant se, sed, si velint, etiam mutilant se - ipsa genitalia resecent.” The simple meaning is, I think, that Paul wished that the authors of these errors and disturbances were excluded from the church.
Which trouble you - Who pervert the true doctrines of salvation, and who thus introduce error into the church. Error always sooner or later causes trouble; compare the note at 1 Corinthians 5:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. I would they were even cut off which trouble you. — This saying has puzzled many, and different interpretations of the place have been proposed by learned men.
At first sight it seems as if the apostle was praying for the destruction of the false teachers who had perverted the Churches of Galatia. Mr. Wakefield thought οφελον αποκοψονται might be translated, I wish that they were made to weep; and in his translation of the New Testament the passage stands thus: "I wish that they who are unsettling you may lament it." I believe the apostle never meant any such thing. As the persons who were breeding all this confusion in the Churches of Galatia were members of that Church, the apostle appears to me to be simply expressing his desire that they might be cut off or excommunicated from the Church. Kypke has given an abundance of examples where the word is used to signify amputating; cutting off from society, office, c. excluding. In opposition to the notion of excommunication, it might be asked: "Why should the apostle wish these to be excommunicated when it was his own office to do it?" To this it may be answered: The apostle's authority was greatly weakened among that people by the influence of the false teachers, so that in all probability he could exercise no ecclesiastical function; he could therefore only express his wish. And the whole passage is so parallel to that, 1 Corinthians 5:6-7, that I think there can be no reasonable doubt of the apostle's meaning: Let those who are unsettling the Church of Christ in your district be excommunicated; this is my wish, that they should no longer have any place among you."
