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Gal 1:4. Τοῦ δόντος, who gave) Paul adds such a periphrasis nowhere else to the prayer for grace and peace: who gave himself, Gal 2:20.-ἁμαρτιῶν, for our sins) which had enslaved us to this evil world.-ἐξέληται, might deliver) Paul describes the whole benefit of redemption on that side, on which the Galatians, carried away by the mischievous influence of Jewish teaching, experienced greatest difficulty.-ἐνεστῶτος, present) This present lasts as long as wickedness prevails.-αἰῶνος πονηροῦ; evil world) A rare mode of speaking by which the whole economy of sin under the authority of Satan is denoted. The ages of ages (for ever and ever) in the following verse are opposed to this world [which is both depraved and unhappy.-V. g.], on which comp. Rom 5:6 : and by it the Galatians had been almost entirely led away. The present world obstructs the glory of God, and is under the authority τοῦ πονηροῦ, of the Wicked One. Paul speaks of Satan nowhere more sparingly than in this epistle.-κατὰ, according to) construed with, who gave; Joh 10:18, at the end.-τὸ θέλημα the will) without any merit of ours; comp. Joh 6:38-39.-καὶ, and) See Rom 15:6, note [of Him who is at once God (the Creator) and our Father].