Hey, everybody's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're kind of this cool little pivot point here as we're going through this season on the book of Galatians. We're writing between the end of chapter two and the beginning of chapter three, or really verse one of chapter three. And I've been using this verse that says, you foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you before your very eyes, Jesus Christ,

was clearly portrayed as crucified. I've been using this verse as an excuse to go and look at what

smarter people than me have to say about the situation that's unfolding here in the book of Galatians,

about who these people are, about what mistake it is that they've

made. I mean, why are they foolish? What does it mean that you were bewitched? Are they responsible

for forgetting the gospel message they received and chasing after something that is no gospel

at all? Or is it something that just happened to them? They got put under a spell or an enchantment.

Well, I am far from the first person in the history of Christianity to be obsessed with the book of Galatians,

both because of the implications of the book for understanding the whole New Testament,

but also because of the implications for me and my own walk with God and my own trying to figure this stuff out.

Whole by just tons of other people have thought about this book very deeply and written about it.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of the church.

And over the last few days, we've been going down this fun rabbit hole of seeing what many of those

brilliant minds from across the centuries have done with this question of what's going on

here in Galatians and what is Paul calling out on the part of these people. So we've looked at

Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and today we are going to go east and much

further back in time where we are going to hear from John Chrysostom,

the Archbishop of Constantinople. He was in charge in the late 300s and early 400s, the leading

voice of Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean Greek-speaking world. And he wrote a commentary on the epistle to the Galatians.

And so I went and looked up what he had to say about the passage we're looking at Galatians 3,

verse 1. He says this, let not Paul calling the Galatians foolish surprise you, for it's not a

transgression of Christ's command not to call one's brother a fool

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