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Verse 24. _THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER_] Ὁ νομος
παιδαγωγος ἡμων γεγονεν εις Χριστον·
_The law was our pedagogue unto Christ_. The παιδαγωγος,
pedagogue, is not the _schoolmaster_, but the _servan...
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WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER - The word rendered
schoolmaster (παιδαγωγὸς paidagōgos, whence the word
“pedagogue”), referred originally to a slave or freedman, to whose
care boys were comm...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
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WAS. has become.
SCHOOLMASTER. Greek. _paidagogos_. This was. trust-worthy slave who
had the guardianship of the boys of it family. See Cor. Galatians
4:15....
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Translate, SO THAT THE LAW HAS PROVED TO US A TUTOR UNTO CHRIST.
_our schoolmaster_ The Greek word, -paidagogos" (from which Engl.
pedagogue) does not mean a _teacher_, but a confidential slave, who
h...
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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...
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24. A change of metaphor from protection by a guard to a “tutor,”
i.e. here the beneficent action of the Law is more directly indicated.
In all probability too we should place a full stop at the end o...
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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...
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ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΌΣ (G3807) воспитатель,
мужчина-няня. В греческих и римских
семьях был такой раб, которому
поручали заботу о мальчике в возрасте
от 6 до 16 лет. Раб этот следил за
поведением мальчика и сопров...
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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...
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OUR SCHOOL-MASTER— The original does not signify a _school-master,_
but "one who heads or conducts children to school."The ancients
generally employed a person for this purpose; and if the Apostle be...
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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...
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_VERSE 24. WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO
CHRIST._
This simile of the schoolmaster is striking. Schoolmasters are
indispensable. But show me a pupil who loves his schoolmaster...
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith.
'So that the law hath proved to be [ Gegonen (G1096)] our
schoolmaster ('tutor,' 'pedagogue;' am...
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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...
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3:24 to (f-10) See Ephesians 1:14 , and Note....
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SCHOOLMASTER] cp. Romans 7:7. Tutor, or trainer, who by his
chastisement for our faults made us see our need of grace and pardon.
St. Paul may have been thinking of the Jewish custom of fathers daily...
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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...
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In those days, rich families had slaves. Some of the slaves would look
after the young children in the rich family. The slaves took the
children to the children’s teachers. And the slaves guarded the...
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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...
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THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER. — Not quite a satisfactory
translation; yet it is difficult to suggest a better. The Greek word
is that from which is derived the English “pedagogue.” Originally
it meant...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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As for the law, it was put or given because of transgressions, to put
a stop, by the punishments prescribed, to idolatry and other crimes,
which the Jews had learnt from other nations, particularly in...
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(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...
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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...
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24._Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster _This is the second
comparison, which still more clearly expresses Paul’s design. A
schoolmaster is not appointed for the whole life, but only for
childhood,...
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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...
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WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER UNTO CHRIST,.... So the words
should be read, as they are by the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; for
the words "to bring us" are a supplement of our translators, a...
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster _to bring us_ unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith.
Ver. 24. _The law was our schoolmaster_] Such a one as that Livy and
Florus speak of in Italy, w...
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_Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster_ That is, the instructer of
the childhood of us Jews, or of the church of God, in its state of
minority; see on Galatians 4:3; _to bring us unto Christ_ To trai...
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WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST, THAT
WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH....
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The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:...
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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...
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Tutor - One who takes children from their home to shcool and protects
them from harm.
Christ is the teacher. The law is the school bus driver to take Israel
to the teacher. Once they are in the class...
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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...
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THE LAW, both the law contained in ordinances and the moral law, WAS
OUR SCHOOLMASTER; serving us in the same stead that a schoolmaster in
a school doth, who only fitteth children for higher degrees o...
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So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we
might be justified by faith. [In the first of these two verses, Paul
enlarges the thought of verse 22, fully describing those subje...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
but he has also said, that the law was our pedagogue [to bring us] to
Christ Jesus.[29]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
For the word which, in matters...
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Galatians 3:24 Therefore G5620 law G3551 was G1096 (G5754) our G2257
tutor G3807 to G1519 Christ G5547 that...
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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....
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‘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...
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Galatians 3:24. SO THEN THE LAW HAS BEEN OUR TUTOR UNTO CHRIST. This
sentence expresses in a few words the true philosophy of the law in
its relation to Christ ‘Tutor,' literally _pædagogue_ (leader o...
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_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...
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OUR TUTOR UNTO CHRIST
(παιδαγωγος υμων εις Χριστον). See 1
Corinthians 4:15 for the only other N.T. example of this old and
common word for the slave employed in Greek and Roman families of the
bett...
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LAW
I. The law of Moses, Summary:
(1) The Mosaic Covenant was given to Israel in three parts:
THE COMMANDMENTS, expressing the righteous will of God; (Exodus 20:1);
THE "JUDGMENTS", governing the s...
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Galatians 3:24
Love in the Schooling of the Law.
Over all righteousness before men the will has power, because it is a
righteousness of outward acts; but the will has not power over the
desires and a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WAS IN CHARGE. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says of the
PAIDAGOGOS: "For he was a confidential dependent, usually a slave,
neither qualified to instruct, nor invested with authority to control
hi...
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_Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster._
THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER
I. The condition of humanity and the ultimate purpose of God
respecting it. The Jews a type of mankind. Humanity is the Son of G...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:24 The LAW, as GUARDIAN, had positive
functions. It restrained and exposed sin and promised Christ’s
coming....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39; Colossians 2:17; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 2
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Wherefore [ω σ τ ε]. Better, so that. Theological consequence of
the previous statements.
Our schoolmaster [π α ι δ α γ ω γ ο ς η μ ω ν]. Our.
Paul speaks as a Jew of Jews especially. Schoolmaster [π...
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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...
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto Christ — It was designed
to train us up for Christ. And this it did both by its commands, which
showed the need we had of his atonement; and its ceremonies,...