Discovery BoxGalatians 1:8-9 
Context1:8 But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach 1 a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, 2 let him be condemned to hell! 3 1:9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell! 4
Galatians 2:7
Context2:7 On the contrary, when they saw 5 that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised 6 just as Peter was to the circumcised 7
Galatians 3:2
Context3:2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law 8 or by believing what you heard? 9
Galatians 3:23-24
Context3:23 Now before faith 10 came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners 11 until the coming faith would be revealed. 3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian 12 until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous 13 by faith.
Galatians 6:8
Context6:8 because the person who sows to his own flesh 14 will reap corruption 15 from the flesh, 16 but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
1 tc ‡ Most witnesses have ὑμῖν (Jumin, “to you”) either after (א2 A [D* ὑμᾶς] 6 33 326 614 945 1881 Ï Tertpt Ambst) or before (Ì51vid B H 0278 630 1175 [1739* ἡμῖν]) εὐαγγελίζηται (euaggelizhtai, “should preach” [or some variation on the form of this verb]). But the fact that it floats suggests its inauthenticity, especially since it appears to be a motivated reading for purposes of clarification. The following witnesses lack the pronoun: א* F G Ψ ar b g Cyp McionT Tertpt Lcf. The external evidence admittedly is not as weighty as evidence for the pronoun, but coupled with strong internal evidence the shorter reading should be considered original. Although it is possible that scribes may have deleted the pronoun to make Paul’s statement seem more universal, the fact that the pronoun floats suggests otherwise. NA27 has the pronoun in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.
2 tn Or “other than the one we preached to you.”
3 tn Grk “let him be accursed” (ἀνάθεμα, anaqema). The translation gives the outcome which is implied by this dreadful curse.
4 tn See the note on this phrase in the previous verse.
5 tn The participle ἰδόντες (idontes) has been taken temporally to retain the structure of the passage. Many modern translations, because of the length of the sentence here, translate this participle as a finite verb and break the Greek sentences into several English sentences (NIV, for example, begins new sentences at the beginning of both vv. 8 and 9).
6 tn Grk “to the uncircumcision,” that is, to the Gentiles.
7 tn Grk “to the circumcision,” a collective reference to the Jewish people.
8 tn Grk “by [the] works of [the] law,” a reference to observing the Mosaic law.
9 tn Grk “by [the] hearing of faith.”
10 tn Or “the faithfulness [of Christ] came.”
11 tc Instead of the present participle συγκλειόμενοι (sunkleiomenoi; found in Ì46 א A B D* F G P Ψ 33 1739 al), C D1 0176 0278 Ï have the perfect συγκεκλεισμένοι (sunkekleismenoi). The syntactical implication of the perfect is that the cause or the means of being held in custody was confinement (“we were held in custody [by/because of] being confined”). The present participle of course allows for such options, but also allows for contemporaneous time (“while being confined”) and result (“with the result that we were confined”). Externally, the perfect participle has little to commend it, being restricted for the most part to later and Byzantine witnesses.
tn Grk “being confined.”
12 tn Or “disciplinarian,” “custodian,” or “guide.” According to BDAG 748 s.v. παιδαγωγός, “the man, usu. a slave…whose duty it was to conduct a boy or youth…to and from school and to superintend his conduct gener.; he was not a ‘teacher’ (despite the present mng. of the derivative ‘pedagogue’…When the young man became of age, the π. was no longer needed.” L&N 36.5 gives “guardian, leader, guide” here.
13 tn Or “be justified.”
14 tn BDAG 915 s.v. σάρξ 2.c.α states: “In Paul’s thought esp., all parts of the body constitute a totality known as σ. or flesh, which is dominated by sin to such a degree that wherever flesh is, all forms of sin are likew. present, and no good thing can live in the σάρξ…Gal 5:13, 24;…Opp. τὸ πνεῦμα…Gal 3:3; 5:16, 17ab; 6:8ab.”
15 tn Or “destruction.”
16 tn See the note on the previous occurrence of the word “flesh” in this verse.
