McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree
Verse 13. _CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US_] εξηγορασεν. Hath bought us with a price; viz. his _blood_, or life. _BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US_] Being made an _atonement_ for our sins; for whatever was offered...
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US - The word used here ἐξηγόρασεν exēgorasen is not that which is usually employed in the New Testament to denote redemption. That word is λυτρόω lutroō. The difference betw...
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...
GALATIANS 3:1 TO GALATIANS 5:12. DOCTRINAL SECTION. PAUL SETS THE CHOICE BEFORE THEM CHRIST OR THE LAW AND ARGUES FOR ITS URGENCY. Galatians 3:1. It was a strange folly which could lead them to forget...
All who depend on the deeds which the law lays down are under a curse, for it stands written, "Cursed is everyone who does not consistently obey and perform all the things written in the book of the l...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
CHRIST. App-98. REDEEMED. Greek. _exagorazo_. Elsewhere, Galatians 4:5.Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 4:5. FROM. Greek. _ek_. App-104. BEING MADE. becoming. (Emph.) FOR.
Reverting to what he said, Galatians 3:10, the Apostle shews how complete this justification is. The curse has been borne, and the Law is silent. The curse has been removed, and the blessing remains;...
-Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us". In Galatians 3:10 the Apostle has shewn that by the very terms of the Law, all who are under the Law (i.e. all who seek to be...
ΧΡΙΣΤῸΣ. The absence of a connecting particle emphasises the greatness of this glad contrast (Colossians 2:20 note). Cf. Titus 3:4-7. Probably “Christ” here has its full meaning of “Messiah,” if, as i...
10–14. _Works, regarded as a source of life, bring a curse, faith the blessing and the Spirit_ (Galatians 3:10) (It is only faith that brings the blessing) for as many as draw their religious life fro...
ΈΞΗΓΌΡΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΑΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G1805) покупать на рынке, избавлять, выкупать из рабства (АРС; TDNT; DPL, 784-86; ABD, 5:650-57). Предложное сочетание перфектно: "выкупать" "полностью избавл...
DISCOURSE: 2062 REDEMPTION BY CHRIST Galatians 3:13. _Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us_. THE law, which subjects all mankind to a curse, is the moral law;...
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW,— The curse of the law, from which Christ hath redeemed us, was that which doomed us to eternal misery; whence it has been justly inferred, that the l...
Justification by faith proved by the death of Christ on the Cross. Galatians 3:13-14 TEXT 3:13, 14 (13) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written,...
_VERSE 13. CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE._ Jerome and his present-day followers rack their...
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: He breaks away abruptly from those who would involve us...
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...
3:13 redeemed (k-3) _ Exagorazo_ . only here and ch. 4.5; Ephesians 5:16 ; Colossians 4:5 , 'to buy out from.' written, (l-21) See Deuteronomy 21:23 ....
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...
REDEEMED] a figure drawn from the analogy of ransoming captives. US] i.e. Jews. THE CURSE] the condemnation pronounced by the Law upon sin. BEING MADE] by submitting to the shame of being crucified: c...
Most Bibles translate the word ‘judgement’ as ‘curse’. To ‘curse’ is the opposite of to ‘bless’. (See my note on verses 8-9 for the meaning of ‘bless’.) A curse is a judgement with a suitable punishme...
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...
The Law brought a curse, but the Christian is delivered from that curse. How? Christ has taken it upon Himself. The Crucifixion brought Him under the curse of the Law. At the same time, it abolished t...
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US. — Better, _Christ redeemed us._ The opening of this verse without any connecting particle lends sharpness and emphasis to the contrast. The Law brought a curse. There it stopp...
(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law; just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness. Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends...
CHAPTER 12 ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE. Galatians 3:6 FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By this gate th...
The Law pronounced a blessing and a curse; but since it made no allowance for human infirmity, the blessing proved barren in result; while the curse, which invoked the just wrath of an offended God fo...
BY FAITH MEN BECOME SONS OF ABRAHAM AND INHERIT HIS BLESSING, WHEREAS THOSE WHO CLAIM IT ON THE SCORE OF OBEDIENCE TO LAW ARE SUBJECT TO THE CURSE OF A BROKEN LAW; FROM WHICH CHRIST REDEEMED US, GENTI...
INHERITORS OF THE PROMISE Galatians 3:11 We are not under ceremonial law, as contained in the precepts of Leviticus. Our Savior has perfectly fulfilled them on the behalf of the Jewish people, whom H...
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...
(14) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: (15) for it is written, (h) Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: (14) A preventing of an objection: how the...
Are under a curse....cursed is every man, &c. The sense of these is to be found Deuteronomy xxvii. 26. in the Septuagint. Some expound them thus: curses are pronounced against every one who keeps not...
(10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (11) B...
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...
_‘REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW’_ ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.’ Galatians 3:13 The Cross of Christ sheds light upon some of those darker probl...
13._Christ hath redeemed us_. The apostle had made all who are under the law subject to the curse; from which arose this great difficulty, that the Jews could not free themselves from the curse of the...
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...
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW,.... The Redeemer is Christ, the Son of God; who was appointed and called to this work by his Father, and which he himself agreed to; he was spoken of...
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed _is_ every one that hangeth on a tree: Ver. 13. _Christ hath redeemed us_] As man he bought us,...
_Christ_ Christ alone; the abruptness of the sentence shows a holy indignation at those who reject so great a blessing; _hath redeemed us_ Or, _hath bought us off_, whether Jews or Gentiles; _from the...
THE CURSE OF THE LAW; the punishment which it threatens against transgressors. MADE A CURSE; treated as accursed, in suffering for our sake the accursed death of the cross. Deuteronomy 21:23; 2 CORIN...
Paul's opponents are subject to the curse of the broken Law:...
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED BE EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE;...
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...
This is not how we are saved! Habakkuk 2:4 God has always asked for obedient faith. Verse 12 references Leviticus 18:5 The law of Moses did not demand faith. Obedience to the law would bring blessi...
6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose fa...
If the law curseth all those who continue not in all things contained in the law, (as the apostle had said, GALATIANS 3:10, and proved from DEUTERONOMY 27:26), it might be objected: How will believers...
Dialogue of Justin Then I replied, "Just as God commanded the sign to be made by the brazen serpent, and yet He is blameless; even so, though a curse lies in the law against persons who are crucified...
Galatians 3:13 Christ G5547 redeemed G1805 (G5656) us G2248 from G1537 curse G2671 law G3551 become G1096 ...
‘Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree”.' And now Paul gets to the essence of the salvation provid...
THE LAW CAN ONLY CONDEMN US BUT WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE LAW (GALATIANS 3:10). Paul then points out the folly of trying to become acceptable to God by our own works....
Galatians 3:13. CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW BY BECOMING A CURSE FOR US. One of the strongest passages for the doctrine of a vicarious atonement Christ, out of infinite love and in ful...
REDEEMED US (ημας εξηγορασεν). First aorist active of the compound verb εξαγοραζω (Polybius, Plutarch, Diodorus), to buy from, to buy back, to ransom. The simple verb αγοραζω (1 Corinthians 6:20; 1...
Galatians 3:13 (with Romans 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 4:1;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BUT CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US. "The Law held us under its curse, but Christ _bought us_ from the curse by becoming a curse for us. It was impossible for us to _free ourselves_ from the curse, but what we...
_Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us._ SIN AND REDEMPTION I. The divine execration of sin. 1. Under a moral government a righteous governor will, yea, must,...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:13 The divine CURSE is the result of disobedience (v. Galatians 3:10). But the burden of the curse has been lifted by Christ’s work on t
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 3:10. AS MANY AS ARE OF THE WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE.—This the Scripture itself declares. It utters an anathema against all who fail to fulfil e...
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 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 2:24;...
Hath redeemed [ε ξ η γ ο ρ α σ ε ν]. P o. Better redeemed. Comp. Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 4:5. In LXX once, Daniel 2:8. See on...
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...
Christ — Christ alone. The abruptness of the sentence shows an holy indignation at those who reject so great a blessing. Hath redeemed us — Whether Jews or gentiles, at an high price. From the curse o...
Is Christ blessed or cursed? PROBLEM: Paul declares that Christ was cursed of God, “having become a curse for us.” However, the Bible declares repeatedly that Christ was blessed of God (cf. Psalms 72...
This is the apostle's fifth and last argument, to prove that we are justified by faith; and that notwithstanding the threats of the law,. believer is freed from the curse and malediction of the law, b...