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9. Repeats the curse, but (a) the change from the subjunctive to the indicative suggests that there is a person actually engaged in this erroneous preaching; (b) St Paul lays stress on the fact that the gospel of this person contradicts what they had in fact accepted.
ὡς προειρήκαμεν (cf. Gal 5:2-3; Gal 5:21), καὶ ἄρτι πάλιν. ἄρτι, Gal 1:10. The statement appears to be too emphatic to refer to Gal 1:8. It would seem therefore that even on his last visit (hardly on his first) he felt the need of warning them against possible false teaching. Probably however it had not actually come to them then, or he would hardly have expressed surprise at their beginning to fall away (Gal 1:6). Compare Gal 4:16 note and the Introduction, p. xxxvi.
ὑμᾶς. In Gal 1:8 εὐαγγ. takes the dative. But the accusative is the simplest objective case, and when the emphasis lies not on the verb but on the object it is readily employed when a choice is possible, as was the case with εὐαγγ. in late Greek; cf. Luk 3:18.
παρελάβετε, “received at our hands,” Col 2:6 note. He says this “lest the Galatians should say: We, O Paul, do not pervert the Gospel that thou hast preached unto us: we understood thee not rightly, but the teachers that came after thee have declared unto us the true meaning thereof” (Luther).