Verse 23. _BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME_] Before the _Gospel_ was published. _WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP_] εφρουρουμεθα. _We were_ _kept as in a strong hold_, συγκεκλεισμενοι, _locked up, unto the...
BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME - That is, the system of salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus. Faith here denotes the Christian religion, because faith is its distinguishing characteristic. WE WERE KEPT UNDER...
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...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
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...
BEFORE. Greek. pro. App-104. KEPT. kept in custody. SHUT UP. Some as "concluded" above. UNTO. Greek. _eis_. App-104. SHOULD AFTERWARDS. was about to be. REVEALED. Greek. _apokalupto_. App-106....
_But before faith came_ Better, -before this faith", i.e. in Jesus Christ, -came"; and so nearly = before Christ came. _we were kept_ KEPT IN WARD. The same word occurs 1 Peter 1:5. _shut up_ The pa...
23, 24. _A more positive answer to the question of v._19. _The Law was distinctly preparative_ (Galatians 3:23) We Jews were protected—the Law leaving us no room to escape from its power—that we shoul...
ΣΥΝΚΛΕΙΌΜΕΝΟΙ אABD*G. συγκεκλεισμένοι Text. Rec. CDcKL. 23. ΠΡῸ ΤΟΥ͂ ΔῈ ἘΛΘΕΙ͂Ν ΤῊΝ ΠΊΣΤΙΝ. Galatians 3:22 suggests to St Paul that he should (Galatians 3:23-24) dwell on the temporary and preparative...
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...
ΈΛΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, приходить. _Aor. inf._ с предлогом выражает предшествование: "до" (МТ, 144). ΤΗΝ ΠΊΣΤΙΝ (G5432) _асс. sing._ (до) веры; до того, как спасение, данно...
DISCOURSE: 2068 THE TRUE USE OF THE LAW Galatians 3:21. 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 sho...
TEXT 3:23-25 (23) But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Chri...
_VERSE 23. BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME._ VERSE 23. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. VERSE 23. Shut up unto the faith which sho...
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. FAITH, [ teen (G3588)] - namely, that just mentioned (Galatians 3:22). KEPT, [ efrou...
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...
3:23 faith (e-13) Or 'the faith.'...
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...
FAITH] i.e. the Gospel, whose principle is faith. Both Faith and Law are here personified. KEPT] RV 'kept in ward,' imprisoned by the Law's verdict upon sin, awaiting the time of our deliverance throu...
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...
People could not trust Jesus until he came to this world. Before that time, people had to obey the *Jewish law. The law showed people how much they *sinned. The law was like a judge. It showed people...
BEFORE FAITH CAME. — Before faith awoke into exercise, began to exist, or the preaching of Christ as its object. WE WERE KEPT. — Better, _we were kept in ward,_ so as to bring out more clearly the fo...
(21-24) If the Law was thus inferior to the promise, does it therefore follow that it is contrary to it? By no means. The Law could not indeed give life; it could not justify, or place in a state of r...
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 POSITION OF THE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRIST IS ILLUSTRATED BY THE CONTROL EXERCISED OVER CHILDREN IN THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE BY MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. These verses explain the...
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...
(26) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto (x) the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (26) Now there follows another handling of the second part of this epistle, the...
(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...
23._Before faith came_. The question proposed is now more fully defined. He explains at great length the use of the law, and the reason why it was temporal; for otherwise it would have appeared to be...
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...
BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME,.... This is to be understood, not of the grace of faith, which was under the former dispensation, as now; the Old Testament saints had the same Spirit of faith, and the same gra...
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Ver. 23. _But before faith came, &c._] _i.e._ Before Christ came; faith is put for the o...
_But before faith_ That is, the gospel dispensation, _came, we_ The nation of the Jews; _were kept under the law_ Under that dispensation, as condemned malefactors are guarded in close custody; _shut...
BEFORE FAITH CAME; before Christ, the object of faith, came; or before the way of life through him was clearly revealed....
BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED....
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...
The law was a state of preparation for the faith to be revealed....
23-25 The law did not teach a living, saving knowledge; but, by its rites and ceremonies, especially by its sacrifices, it pointed to Christ, that they might be justified by faith. And thus it was, a...
BEFORE FAITH CAME; before the covenant of grace, or the doctrine of the gospel, or Christ himself, was revealed. WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW; the apostle either speaks of all mankind, of whom it is tru...
But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed....
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I sal salvation of humanity, and that there is the same equality before the righteous and loving God, and the same fellowship between Him and all, the apostle...
Galatians 3:23 But G1161 before G4253 faith G4102 came G2064 (G5629) kept G5432 under G5259 guard G5432 ...
‘But before faith came we were kept in ward (kept under restraint) under the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed, so that the Law has been our custodian to bring us to Chri...
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....
_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...
Galatians 3:23. BEFORE THE FAITH CAME, the faith in Jesus Christ just mentioned (Galatians 3:22), which under the legal dispensation existed only as a latent element of life. WE WERE SHUT UP AND KEPT...
BEFORE FAITH CAME (προ του ελθειν την πιστιν). "Before the coming (second aorist active infinitive of ερχομα, definite event) as to the Faith" (note article, meaning the faith in verse Galatians 3:2...
Galatians 3:23 The Reasonableness of the Gospel. I. There is something of a military allusion in this passage which it may be well to point out. The expression "kept under the law" denotes in the ori...
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...
BEFORE. "Before the Good News of God's act in Christ was revealed (1 Corinthians 2:7-10), The Law kept us locked up as prisoners, criminals condemned by The Law, to be set free only when this faith sh...
_But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin._ A CHARGE OF SIN I. The scripture statement of man’s natural condition. And what now do you expect to hear? That man, though fallen and frail, has nev...
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 3:22. THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN.—The written letter was needed so as permanently to convict man of disobedience to God’s command. He is shu...
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 9:20; 1 Corinthians 9:21; 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12;...
But the office of the law as a jailer was designed to be only temporary, until the time when faith should come. It was to hold in custody those who were subjected to sin, so that they should not escap...
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...
But before faith — That is, the gospel dispensation. Came, we were kept — As in close custody. Under the law — The Mosaic dispensation. Shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed — Reserved and p...
BEFORE FAITH CAME, that is, before Christ came, and the doctrine of faith was preached, we were in bondage under the law; the ceremonial law was. very great bondage; their frequent going up to Jerusal...