Matthew Poole and continuators on Galatians 4:15

15 Where is then the blessedness you spake of ? for I bear you record, that if it had been possible you would have pluckt out your own eyes and given them to me .

Some understand the blessedness here spoken of in a passive sense; you were then a blessed and happy people, receiving the Doctrine of the Gospel in the Truth and Purity of it; what is now become of that blessedness? But both the preceding, and the following words, seem to rule the sense otherwise, viz. where is that blessedness which you predicated of me.

You called me then blessed, and shewed me such a d[illegible: 1 letter]ar affection that you would if it would have done me good, have parted with what was dearest to you.

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