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Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Galatians 3:27

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 ἐβαπτίσθητε. Cf. Colossians 2:12. For βαπτίζομαι εἰς a person, see Romans 6:3; 1 Corinthians 10:2. Cf. βαπτίζ. εἰς τὸ ὄνομα, Matthew 28:19 al. Christ was the aim and purpose of your baptism, and through it you obtained union with even Him.

Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε, i.e. you appropriated the relation to God in which Christ stands, you received all that Christ is. There is no thought here of putting off the old man of sinful desires (Colossians 3:8-12), but only of leaving the previous state of pupillage by union with Christ.

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