Galates 4:13

13 Vous savez que ce fut à cause d'une infirmité de la chair que je vous ai pour la première fois annoncé l'Evangile.

Galates 4:13 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 4:13

Ye know how, through infirmity of the flesh
Meaning either their infirmity, to which the apostle accommodated himself in preaching the Gospel to them, delivering it in such a manner as suited with their capacities, feeding them with milk, and not with strong meat; or his own infirmity, respecting either some particular bodily infirmity and disorder, as the headache, with which he is said to be greatly troubled; or the weakness of his bodily presence, the mean outward appearance he made, the contemptibleness of his voice, and the great humility with which he behaved; or rather the many reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions which attended him, when, says he,

I preached the Gospel unto you at the first;
not the law, but the Gospel; and this he did at his first entrance among them, and was the first that preached it to them, and was the means of their conversion; and therefore, being their spiritual Father, they ought to be as he was, and follow him as they had him for an example.

Galates 4:13 In-Context

11 Je crains d'avoir inutilement travaillé pour vous.

12 Soyez comme moi, car moi aussi je suis comme vous. Frères, je vous en supplie. Vous ne m'avez fait aucun tort.

13 Vous savez que ce fut à cause d'une infirmité de la chair que je vous ai pour la première fois annoncé l'Evangile.

14 Et mis à l'épreuve par ma chair, vous n'avez témoigné ni mépris ni dégoût; vous m'avez, au contraire, reçu comme un ange de Dieu, comme Jésus-Christ.

15 Où donc est l'expression de votre bonheur? Car je vous atteste que, si cela eût été possible, vous vous seriez arraché les yeux pour me les donner.