<p>3:5 <i>Does he that supplies to you the Spirit</i>- As noted on :2, this refers to the gift of the Spirit in the hearts of believers after baptism. The same word for &quot;supplies&quot; is used in Col. 2:19 of how the Lord Jesus as the head of the body supplies nourishment to every part. The Lord Jesus is indeed an active Lord. He ministers psychological, spiritual strengthening to all parts of His body, which is the church.</p><p><i>And works miracles </i><i>among you, do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</i>- See on :2 <i>Did you receive the Spirit</i>. Note the present tenses. Despite the apostasy in Galatia, the Lord Jesus still actively ministered His Spirit and enabled miracles to be done, just as God did to an apostate Israel in the wilderness. Even in the first century, the work of the Spirit was not just confined to the miraculous gifts; thus &quot;He that supplies to you the Spirit <i>and</i> works miracles among you&quot; suggests that there was a non-miraculous work of the Spirit then. It seems clear that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit were not possessed by all first century believers; and yet the epistles often imply that all believers had received the Spirit (e.g. 2 Cor. 1:22). The resolution of this is in the fact that all believers then and now receive the non-miraculous effect of the Spirit. Indeed, Jude 19 suggests that 'having the spirit' could just refer to someone who is not &quot;sensual&quot;, i.e. of the flesh. John was &quot;filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb... (going) in the Spirit and power of Elias... waxed strong in spirit&quot; (Lk. 1:15,17,80); but &quot;John did no miracle &quot; (Jn. 10:41). David associated having God's holy Spirit with having free fellowship with Him due to sins being forgiven, paralleling the holy Spirit with &quot;a right spirit within me... a clean heart&quot; (Ps. 51:10,12); and Paul spoke of God's willingness to forgive us as &quot;the spirit of grace&quot; (Heb. 10:29), i.e. His spiritual gift. Paul's reasoning in Gal. 3:5,6 is similar- the Spirit is ministered to us by faith, in the same way as Abraham's faith resulted in righteousness being imputed ('ministered') to him. Thus imputed righteousness is made parallel to the gift of the Spirit.</p>