Galatians 4:13
And you know that it was due to chulshat habasar (weakness of the flesh, sickness) that I first preached the Besuras HaGeulah to you,
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 13:40And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he tahor.
1 Corinthians 2:3And I came to you + 2:3 Ac 18:1 in weakness + 2:3 1C 1:25,27 and in yir'at Shomayim and in fear and in much trembling I was with you,
2 Corinthians 11:6But if indeed I am unskilled in lashon + 11:6 1C 1:17; 2:1,13 yet I am not in da'as (knowledge), + 11:6 Ep 3:4 but in all ways and all things I have made this abundantly clear to you.
2 Corinthians 12:7Therefore, lest I should be too exalted especially by the excess of my chazonot, there was given to me a kotz (thorn, splinter) in my basar, a malach of HaSatan, for the purpose of using his fists on me, + 12:7 Job 2:6 lest I should be too exalted. + 12:7 Num 33:55
Galatians 1:6I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from the One who granted you the kri'ah (calling), summoning you by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Moshiach. I am shocked that so quickly you are being turned from this to a different “Besuras HaGeulah.”
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:13-17
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to… Read the whole commentary →