The word translated "removed" in verse 6, is metatithemi.  It has the force of

"transference", "translation", or "to carry over" (Acts 7: 16; Heb. 11: 5). It was this

sudden transfer of allegiance, without defence, without an appeal to the apostle for help;

this sudden capitulation that caused the apostle's astonishment, and called forth this

burning epistle.

The words "Him that called you" are almost universally ascribed to God the Father,

but there are indications in this epistle that in this case the apostle refers to himself as the

minister by whom they had believed. He charges them with "changing over from him

that called them", not so much with apostasy from God Himself, but from the pure gospel

as preached by himself , to the garbled mixture as preached by the Judaizers. He speaks

of such as "troublers", refers plainly to them in Gal. 4: 12-17 and in Gal. 5: 8, and the

fact that he devotes practically two whole chapters to defend his apostleship and ministry

lends weight to the suggestion.

Whether Jerome's thought that in metatithemi "removed" there is a mental pun on

Galatæ, the Hebrew galal meaning "to roll" or "be removed", is perhaps beyond our

present knowledge to judge.

The seriousness of this "removal" or transfer, was not merely that it was a piece of

personal disloyalty, it was the removal from the true gospel to that which was a gospel

but in name.

This phrase calls for examination, and we might as well couple with it the words

"any other gospel" of verses 8 and 9, words which we have rendered in the structure by

the phrase "different gospel".

In verses 6 and 7 two different words are rendered "another"; heteros, "another of

another sort or kind", and allos, "another of the same or similar kind".

This passage has given considerable trouble to commentators, and the reader may

profit by considering some of the most noteworthy suggestions that have been put

forward.

Alford adopts the note of Meyer:

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