Discovery BoxGalatians 3:3 
Context3:3 Are you so foolish? Although you began 1 with 2 the Spirit, are you now trying to finish 3 by human effort? 4
Galatians 3:14
Context3:14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, 5 so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
1 tn Grk “Having begun”; the participle ἐναρξάμενοι (enarxamenoi) has been translated concessively.
2 tn Or “by the Spirit.”
3 tn The verb ἐπιτελεῖσθε (epiteleisqe) has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534). This is something the Galatians were attempting to do, but could not accomplish successfully.
4 tn Grk “in/by [the] flesh.”
5 tn Or “so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”
