Galatians 3:10

The Curse of the Law. No deliverance except by Faith

10. The mention of the blessing which comes by faith suggests the terrible alternative the curse which the Law pronounces and from which it provides no way of escape a curse from which, because of imperfect obedience, no man can possibly free himself.

as many as Note the universality of the expression, -All to a man are here condemned". Calvin.

of the works of the law See note on Galatians 3:7.

are under the curse i.e. condemnation, the opposite of the blessing, which is justification. There is no middle state.

it is written Deuteronomy 27:26. A quotation from the LXX. The words are the conclusion of the curse uttered on Mount Ebal. Applying primarilyto the Jews, they apply to all who seek to be justified by their obedience to the moral law, and not in God's own appointed way, through faith. Bengel observes that the obedience which the Law demands must be perfect (-in all things"), and unfailing (-continueth not").