Hey everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're maybe three days or so into a conversation about a very emotional passage in the middle of Galatians 4, which is a very logical book with very Greek-style, rational argumentation, where the Apostle Paul is trying to straighten out a church he used to know well and have great affection for a church he helped start a church that served him deeply in a moment of need but some outsiders

came in and they messed with these Galatian Christians and got them to believe in a different

message that really doesn't have any hope with it at all so now Paul's heard about it and he's

coming back to them and trying to pull the hooks

that these agitators have got in his friends at this church, trying to pull those hooks out,

trying to snap the Galatians out of this trance they've been put under.

And so far up until Galatians 412, it's all been mostly logical in terms of

his approach and his strategy. But now from Galatians 412 to 20, the tone changes and it is very,

very personal. It's a personal pleading, a personal appeal that Paul's making here. We've been

working on that for a couple days. We'll see what we can do about landing the plane on it right now after my buddy

Jeff plays some music.

We can kind of piece this together with the details we have.

And even if it's one of the three or four or five ways we've speculated about here, you can understand how what Paul is saying in this emotional, relational appeal section

of Galatians 4, you can see how that would

hit home, how that would land. I was busted up because of disease or because people hit me

with rocks or whatever. And even though I was in an ugly state, you guys saw who I represented.

You saw what I was doing. You ministered to me. I ministered to you,

and we loved each other. You were people who were filled with joy. What happened to that?

And Paul goes on to say, I can testify, like, hey, guys, I remember. Do you remember? Maybe he even

remembers them specifically saying this. If you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Now, I've read a couple things where scholars are saying, oh, this is just a common saying

back in the day, but I've never been able to find exactly what they're referencing.

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