This is a very difficult verse to understand. Nobody is sure what it really means. God’s laws went from God to the *angels. The *angels gave them to Moses. Then Moses gave the laws to the people. But God made his promise directly to Abraham. So Paul probably meant that God’s promise is better than his law.
Verse 20. _A MEDIATOR IS NOT_ A MEDIATOR _OF ONE_] As a mediator, μεσιτης, signifies a _middle_ person, there must necessarily be _two_ parties, between whom he stands, and acts in reference to both,...
NOW A MEDIATOR IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE ... - This verse has given great perplexity to commentators. “There is, unquestionably,” says Bloomfield, “no passage in the New Testament that has so much, and...
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...
The promise having once been given, no subsequent enactment like the Law can interfere with it. (Similarly Heb. emphasizes the priority in time of Melchizedek to Aaron.) Even in human affairs, a scrap...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
Why, then, have the law at all? The law was added to the situation to define what transgressions are, until the seed should come, to whom the promise, which still holds good, had been made. That law w...
Probably no verse of Scripture has more exercised the ingenuity of commentators. Certainly of none other can it be said that it -has received 430 interpretations" (Jowett), if by that expression contr...
Ὁ ΔῈ ΜΕΣΊΤΗΣ, “but a mediator.” The article is generic, or, perhaps better, recalls the mediator just mentioned: cf. Galatians 3:23; Galatians 3:25. ΔΈ, adversative, probably to the thought that a me...
19–22. _The true place and purpose of the Law. It was subordinate to the promise, and preparatory, by developing the sense of sin_ (Galatians 3:19) (If the inheritance is by the Promise, not by the La...
ΜΕΣΊΤΗΣ (G3316) посредник. О значении этого отрывка _см._ Longenecker; Betz; Burton; Guthrie; Mussner; U. Mussner, "Galater III, 20: Die Universalitat des Heils" NTS 18(1967): 258-70....
NOW A MEDIATOR, &C.— To understand this verse, we must carry in our minds what St. Paul is here doing; and from Galatians 3:17 it is manifest that he is proving that the law could not disannul the pro...
Superiority of the Gospel to the Law seen in that the law was a temporary arrangement. Galatians 3:19-29 TEXT 3:19, 20 (19) What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the see...
_ VERSE 20. NOW A MEDIATOR IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE._ Of this better Mediator Paul says: "A mediator is not a mediator of one." We are the offending party; God is the party offended. The offense is of...
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 'Now a mediator [in the essential idea: ho (G3588) mesitees (G3316): the article is generic] cannot be of one (but must be of two parties wh...
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...
3:20 a (c-2) Or 'the.' It is abstract -- 'that kind of person.'...
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...
There is no place for a mediator where there is but one party to a transaction. Now, in issuing His promise to Abraham, God stands forth independent and alone. The point is the contrast between the co...
If such was not the function of the Law — if it had _no_ power to modify the promise — what was its true function? It was a sort of measure of police. Its object was to deal with transgressions. It wa...
The mention of the word “mediator” implies a contract to which there are at least two parties. But where there is a contract there must be also conditions, and if these conditions are not observed the...
CHAPTER 14 THE DESIGN OF THE LAW. Galatians 3:19 "WHAT then is the law?" So the Jew might well exclaim. Paul has been doing nothing but disparage it.-"You say that the Law of Moses brings no righteo...
THE LAW WAS A TEMPORARY ENACTMENT ORDAINED TO DEAL WITH THE OFFENCES WHICH IT DENOUNCES UNTIL THE COMING OF THE PROMISED SEED. THE GOD FROM WHOM IT PROCEEDED WAS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, BUT HE PROMULGATED...
The rendering of the first clause in our versions, _Now a mediator is not a mediator of one_, reduces it to an unmeaning truism. The author is not treating of mediators in the abstract, but writes of...
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...
Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, (24) but God is one. (24) A taking away of an objection, lest any man might say that sometimes by consent of the parties which have made a covenant, somethi...
(15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. (16) Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises ma...
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...
_THE ONE MEDIATOR_ ‘How a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.’ Galatians 3:20 This short sentence is so difficult in its conciseness, so abstruse, and capable of so many meanings, th...
20._Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one. _Some are disposed to philosophize on this expression, and would make Paul’s meaning to be, that the twofold nature of Christ is not one in essence. But t...
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...
NOW A MEDIATOR IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE,.... A mediator supposes two parties he stands between, and these at a distance from, or disagreeing with each other; where there is but one party, there can be...
Now a mediator is not _a mediator_ of one, but God is one. Ver. 20. _Is not a mediator of one_] _q.d._ God and men were at odds, else what use of a mediator? Sin is the makebate (mischief maker), as...
Gal. 3:19, 20. "It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediato...
_Now a mediator is not a mediator of one_ There must be two parties, or there can be no place or use for a mediator: but God, who made the free promise to Abraham, is only one of the parties; the othe...
OF ONE; one party. IS ONE; one party, the other party being man....
NOW A MEDIATOR IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, BUT GOD IS ONE....
PROOFS FOR THE LIBERTY OF A CHRISTIAN FROM THE NATURE AND MEANING OF THE LAW. The secondary office of the Law:...
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...
To be a mediator requires two other persons. Jesus is the mediator between God and us....
19-22 If that promise was enough for salvation, wherefore then serveth the law? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's peculiar people, were sinners as well as others. The law was not intended to...
This is a text acknowledged by all interpreters to be very obscure; not so much as considered in itself, (for all know, that a mediator speaks one that goes in the middle between two persons that are...
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one. [This verse has been interpreted in more than three hundred different ways.]...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians And those very apostles, who said "that there is one God,"[19] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Chiding)-Paul-written that such zeal hath he.[217] Hippolytus E...
Galatians 3:20 Now G1161 mediator G3316 does G2076 (G5748) not G3756 one G1520 but G1161 God G2316 is...
‘What then is the Law? It was added because of transgressions until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made, ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not of...
WHAT THEN WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW? (GALATIANS 3:19). He now raises the question as to what the purpose of the Law is....
Galatians 3:20. The natural translation and meaning of this famous cross of interpreters seems to be this: NOW A MEDIATOR (every mediator, including Moses, Galatians 3:19) [1] IS NOT OF ONE (of one pa...
_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...
IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE (ενος ουκ εστιν). That is, a middleman comes in between two. The law is in the nature of a contract between God and the Jewish people with Moses as the mediator or middlema...
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, 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...
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...
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
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...
IS NOT NEEDED. "When God makes a promise, no go-between is needed!" See the contrast in Hebrews 12:18-24....
_Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one._ I. The key to the apostle’s argument--“One.” 1. (Galatians 3:16) One is the seed of Abraham, to whom the promise was made. “In thee shall al...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:20 Because GOD IS ONE, his ultimate revelation comes not through an intermediary but from him alone. This assumes that whatever comes from Christ comes from the one true...
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:19. WHEREFORE THEN SERVETH THE LAW?—As it is of no avail for justification, is it either useless or contrary to the covenant of God? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE O...
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 Timothy 2:5; Acts 12:20; Deuteronomy 6:4; Galatians 3:17; Genesis
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one [ο δ ε μ ε σ ι τ η ς ε ν ο ς ο υ κ ε σ τ ι ν]. Observe, 1. De is explanatory, not antithetic. The verse illustrates the conception of mediator. 2. The article,...
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...
Now the mediator is not a mediator of one — There must be two parties, or there can be no mediator between them; but God who made the free promise to Abraham is only one of the parties. The other, Abr...