George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Galatians 3:27
The baptism of infants shews that the sacrament gives grace of itself, by divine appointment; or, as divines say, ex opere operato.
The baptism of infants shews that the sacrament gives grace of itself, by divine appointment; or, as divines say, ex opere operato.
Verse 27. _AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST_] All of you who have believed in Christ as the promised Messiah, and received _baptism_ as a public proof that ye had received Christ as y...
FOR AS MANY OF YOU - Whether by nature Jews or Gentiles. AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST - Or “unto” (εἰς eis) - the same preposition which in Galatians 3:24 is rendered unto) Christ. That is, they...
II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_ 2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
Inferior, temporary, co-operating such is the distinctive nature of the Law. It had held Israel prisoner, till Christ should come. Or it resembled the slave who led a child to (Christ's) school (1 Cor...
Before faith came we were under guard under the power of the law, shut up and waiting for the day when faith would be revealed. So that the law was really our tutor to bring us to Christ so that we mi...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
HAVE BEEN. were. BAPTIZED. App-115. INTO. Greek. _eis_. App-104. HAVE. Omit....
The selection of the metaphor of Galatians 3:24 is by no means accidental. It suggests and leads up to the grand revelation of Gospel blessedness contained in the peroration to this chapter. The very...
The connexion seems to be, - I SAY, it is by faith in _Christ_, that you are sons of God a faith professed in your Baptism, by which you put on Christ. In Him all the old distinctions of race, conditi...
23–4:7. _The contrast between our former state of pupillage under the Law, and our present state in Christ, full sonship_ This is brought out under two aspects: I. Galatians 3:23-29. The preparative c...
In Galatians 3:27-28 St Paul shows how they obtained their sonship (Theodoret). ὍΣΟΙ, epexegetic of πάντες. ΓᾺΡ, beginning to prove the truth of the whole statement in Galatians 3:26. ΕἸΣ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΝ ἘΒΑ...
25–29. See note at Galatians 3:23 (Galatians 3:25) But when that faith came—we believers are no longer under a paedagogue. (Galatians 3:26) For all (not Jews only) of you are sons of God (with full pr...
ΈΒΑΠΤΊΣΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) креститься. Крещение было знаком начала новой жизни (Guthrie), ΈΝΕΔΎΣΑΣΘΕ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΝΔΎΟΜΑΙ (G1746) надевать, надевать одежду. Как од...
DISCOURSE: 2069 BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BAPTISM Galatians 3:27. _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor fre...
HAVE PUT ON CHRIST.— This, at first sight, may seem a very bad metaphor; but if we consider what St. Paul has said, Galatians 3:16; Galatians 3:26 we shall find it admirably adapted to express his tho...
TEXT 3:26-29 (26) For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. (27) for as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. (28) There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there ca...
_VERSE 27. FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST._ To "put on Christ" may be understood in two ways, according to the Law and according to the Gospel. According to t...
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. BAPTIZED INTO (INTO LIVING INCORPORATION WITH) CHRIST (Romans 6:3; Matthew 28:19: Greek, 'INTO the name'). HAVE PUT ON CHR...
3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves. Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the law...
3:27 ye, (g-2) 'Ye' is not emphatic. The passage does not imply that some might not have been. The apostle is speaking of the bearing of the ordinance...
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST] entered by baptism into the relation of fellowship with Christ. The argument is: Baptism means union with Christ, and union with Christ means the liberty of sonship to God....
JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their reception of the Spirit h...
*Baptism shows that a person has become a Christian. It shows that the person has a new relationship with Jesus Christ. The act of *baptism does not make a person a Christian. It expresses what has al...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic powers to lead...
FOR. — This introduces the reason why the Christian stands to God in the relation of an adult son. He is so by virtue of his relation to Christ. BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST. — To be baptised “_into_ Christ”...
(25-29) But now the Law has been exchanged for the dispensation of faith. Henceforth the old state of pupilage is at an end. We are no longer like children, but adult members of the divine family — _s...
CHAPTER 15 THE EMANCIPATED SONS OF GOD. Galatians 3:25 "FAITH has come!" At this announcement Law the tutor yields up his charge; Law the jailor sets his prisoner at liberty. The age of servitude ha...
BUT NOW WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN. YE ARE ALL SONS OF GOD: AT YOUR BAPTISM YE PUT ON CHRIST, AND WERE INVESTED WITH SPIRITUAL MANHOOD: ALL PREVIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF CREED OR RACE, OF POSITION OR NATURE...
THE LAW LEADS TO CHRIST Galatians 3:20 The Mosaic law was not designed to be the final code of the religious life, but to prepare the soil of the human heart to receive Jesus Christ in all the fullne...
Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you?" He then inquired, Did they...
(28) For as many of you as have been (y) baptized into Christ have (z) put on Christ. (28) Using the words "many of you", lest the Jews should think themselves free from the ordinance of baptism, he...
(21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22) But the scripture ha...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
27._As many of you as have been baptized_. The greater and loftier the privilege is of being the children of God, the farther is it removed from our senses, and the more difficult to obtain belief. He...
What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we, under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST,.... Not that it is to be imagined that these churches of Galatia, or any of the primitive churches, consisted of baptized and unbaptized persons;...
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Ver. 27. _Baptized into Christ_] And so have had your adoption sealed up unto you, like as in the civil adoption there were ce...
_For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ_ In consequence of your believing in him with your heart unto righteousness, and have thereby testified and professed your faith in him; _have put...
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST; become united to him by faith, and according to his will openly professed to be his disciples. HAVE PUT ON CHRIST; taken him as their leader, and professed to come under the con...
FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST....
The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:...
FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he speaks out...
Baptism puts one "into" Christ and puts Christ "on" one....
26-29 Real Christians enjoy great privileges under the gospel; and are no longer accounted servants, but sons; not now kept at such a distance, and under such restraints as the Jews were. Having acce...
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, may either be understood of receiving the sacrament of baptism; which who receiveth, is not only baptized in the name of Christ, and into the profession of Christ; but is sacrame...
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ....
Tertullian Against Marcion Book III Now since Emmanuel is God-with-us, and God-with-us is Christ, who is in us (for "as many of you as are baptized into Christ, have put on Christ"[164] Tertullian O...
Galatians 3:27 For G1063 as G3745 baptized G907 (G5681) into G1519 Christ G5547 on G1746 (G5668) Christ...
‘For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ, have put on (‘clothed themselves with') Christ.' The whole context forbids us as seeing this as suggesting that baptism mechanically results in ‘...
Galatians 3:27. AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, DID PUT ON CHRIST. The Greek tenses (aorists) make the two acts simultaneous; in the act and at the time of your baptism ye did clothe your...
_The Educational Mission of the Law_. Paul now assumes a milder tone, and reasons with the Galatians from the common dealings of men. Even a human covenant is sacred and cannot be set aside, much more...
WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST (εις Χριστον εβαπτισθητε). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω. Better, "were baptized unto Christ" in reference to Christ.DID PUT ON CHRIST (Χριστον ενεδυσασθε)....
3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?_ These Galatians thought that...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,_ Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries o...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I lea...
CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law. CHARA...
Galatians 3:1. _Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you:_ εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and sought by ingenious malice to draw you from the trut...
BAPTIZED INTO UNION. Faith = trust = action. Note salvation is _seized,_ not achieved! Baptism is a _promise made to God_ (1 Peter 3:21 and note). THE QUALITIES OF CHRIST HIMSELF. "By being baptized i...
_Have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ._ BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST I. The clothing is twofold. 1. The putting on of a garment. This is also twofold. (1) To take the outwar...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:27 Having been BAPTIZED, believers have gone down into death. They have died to the old era of law, sin, and death (Romans 6:3;...
CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ. I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
_As many of you as have been baptized into Christ._ To be baptized into Christ is to receive His baptism as distinct from that of Moses or John Baptist. The change from the first person (_we_) of vers...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:26. YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD.—No longer children requiring a tutor, but sons emancipated and walking at liberty. Galatians 3:28. YE ARE ALL ONE IN C...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 3:1 O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour, not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians chapter three. Background: Paul the apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city. There...
1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Peter 3:21; Acts 16:15; Acts 16:31; Acts 2:38
THE CROSS AND ITS OBJECTIVES Galatians 3:10; Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have...
For as many of you as have testified your faith by being baptized in the name of Christ, have put on Christ — Have received him as your righteousness, and are therefore sons of God through him....
What the apostle had asserted in the foregoing verse, he proves in this; namely, that ALL BELIEVERS ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, because they are baptized into Christ and ha...