Change Changed Desire Doubt Perplexed Present Stand Tone Troubled Truly Using Voice Wish Wishing
4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to {t} change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
(t) Use other words among you.
4:20 I desire to be present with you now. When present they had shown warm feeling for him (Ga 4:18). He would now that they were face to face.
To change my voice. To speak, not severely, as a letter would sound, but tenderly.
I stand in doubt of you. Is perplexed by what he hears, and filled with fears.
4:20 I could wish to be present with you now - Particularly in this exigence. And to change - Variously to attemper. My voice - He writes with much softness; but he would speak with more. The voice may more easily be varied according to the occasion than a letter can. For I stand in doubt of you - So that I am at a loss how to speak at this distance.
4:19,20 The Galatians were ready to account the apostle their enemy, but he assures them he was their friend; he had the feelings of a parent toward them. He was in doubt as to their state, and was anxious to know the result of their present delusions. Nothing is so sure a proof that a sinner has passed into a state of justification, as Christ being formed in him by the renewal of the Holy Spirit; but this cannot be hoped for, while men depend on the law for acceptance with God.
Change Changed Desire Doubt Perplexed Present Stand Tone Troubled Using Voice Wish Wishing
Change Changed Desire Doubt Perplexed Present Stand Tone Troubled Using Voice Wish Wishing
