you--emphatical. to them that believe--to them that have "the faith of (in) Jesus Christ" just spoken of. Galatians 3:1-29 . Did someone put a hex on you? Having accepted Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and relying on him alone for justification and salvation, they become the sons of God. "Wherefore then serveth the law?" This he does from the example of Abraham, whose faith fastened upon the word and promise of God, and upon his believing he was owned and accepted of God as a righteous man. "So that the law hath been (that is, hath turned out to be) our schoolmaster (or "tutor," literally, "pedagogue": this term, among the Greeks, meant a faithful servant entrusted with the care of the boy from childhood to puberty, to keep him from evil, physical and moral, and accompany him to his amusements and studies) to guide us unto Christ," with whom we are no longer "shut up" in bondage, but are freemen. Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. Galatians 3:2-7 The Means of our Salvation. addeth--None addeth new conditions "making" the covenant "of none effect" ( Galatians 3:17 ). "But now that faith is come," &c. Moses the lawgiver cannot bring us into the heavenly Canaan though he can bring us to the border of it. yet--rather, "If it be really (or 'indeed') in vain" [ELLICOTT]. that we might receive the promise of the Spirit--the promised Spirit ( Joel 2:28 Joel 2:29 , Luke 24:49 ). Let Christ be always before our eyes, as a sure argument for the defence of faith, against dependence on human righteousness. Righteousness can only come through the promise to Abraham, and through its fulfilment in the Gospel of grace. 1. that ye should not obey the truth--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. Being baptized into Christ, we are baptized into his death, that as he died and rose again, so we should die unto sin, and walk in newness and holiness of life. He does not, as in the case of "the covenant," add "enacted by God" ( John 1:17 ). The ransom price He paid was His own precious blood ( 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 ; compare Matthew 20:28 , Acts 20:28 , 1 Corinthians 6:20 , 7:23 , 1 Timothy 2:6 , 2 Peter 2:1 , Revelation 5:9 ). The argument is, By baptism ye have put on Christ; and therefore, He being the Son of God, ye become sons by adoption, by virtue of His Sonship by generation. In Galatians 3, Paul makes an intricate exegetical argument about the priority of God’s promise to Abraham and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and about the provisional function of the law in relation to God’s promise. Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." 11. by the law--Greek, "IN the law." added--to the original covenant of promise. . The Greek supports English Version. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Accordingly, the "we," in "that we might receive the promise of the Spirit," plainly refers to both Jews and Gentiles. Verse 10 In this verse, Paul was referring to the false teachers. He speaks of these miracles as a matter of unquestioned notoriety among those addressed; an undesigned proof of their genuineness (compare 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ). It was Paul’s greatest concern that they had been misled into believing … . Let us then study the object, nature, and effects of Abraham's faith; for who can in any other way escape the curse of the holy law? the law which was--Greek, "which came into existence four hundred thirty years after" ( Exodus 12:40 Exodus 12:41 ). . as it is of no avail for justification, is it either useless, or contrary to the covenant of God? But He lives and shall reign on David's throne. The conclusion understood is, Therefore a mediator cannot appertain to God; and consequently, the law, with its inseparable appendage of a mediator, cannot be the normal way of dealing of God, the one, and unchangeable God, who dealt with Abraham by direct promise, as a sovereign, not as one forming a compact with another party, with conditions and a mediator attached thereto. Proud member one--Greek, "one man"; masculine, not neuter, namely "one new man" in Christ ( Ephesians 2:15 ). Those only are just or righteous who are freed from death and wrath, and restored into a state of life in the favour of God; and it is only through faith that persons become righteous. 2. It is, in truth, the only way wherein any sinners ever were, or can be justified. come--(Compare "faith came," Galatians 3:23 ). But as He promises the blessing in the faithful use of the means, the Church has rightly presumed, in charity, that such is the case, nothing appearing to the contrary. written--( Deuteronomy 21:23 ). 27:26 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” # 3:11 Hab. The same phrase is in the Greek of Romans 3:26 . promises--plural, because the same promise was often repeated ( Genesis 12:3 Genesis 12:7 , Genesis 15:5 Genesis 15:18 , 17:7 , 22:18 ), and because it involved many things; earthly blessings to the literal children of Abraham in Canaan, and spiritual and heavenly blessings to his spiritual children; but both promised to Christ, "the Seed" and representative Head of the literal and spiritual Israel alike. (Galatians 3:13.) CONTINUAL obedience by the word, "continueth." GATAKER defines a Christian, "One who has put on Christ." in vain--fruitlessly, needlessly, since ye might have avoided them by professing Judaism [GROTIUS]. But no outward forms or profession can secure these blessings; for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. concluded--"shut up," under condemnation, as in a prison. "This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, … "Anathema" means "set apart to God," to His glory, but to the person's own destruction. of none effect--The promise would become so, if the power of conferring the inheritance be transferred from it to the law ( Romans 4:14 ). Compare Romans 2:28 , Philippians 3:3 , Hebrews 9:10 . Color Scheme . Before … The moral law shows us what we ought to do, and so we learn our inability to do it. God supplies unto you the Spirit as the result of faith, not works, just as Abraham obtained justification by faith, not by works ( Galatians 3:6 Galatians 3:8 Galatians 3:16 , Galatians 4:22 Galatians 4:26 Galatians 4:28 ). 4 Have you suffered so [c]many things in vain—if indeed it wasin vain? Chapter 3. 12. doeth--Many depended on the law although they did not keep it; but without doing, saith Paul, it is of no use to them ( Romans 2:13 Romans 2:17 Romans 2:23 , 10:5 ). "Was it by the works of the law that ye received the Spirit (manifested by outward miracles, Galatians 3:5 , 16:17 , Hebrews 2:4 ; and by spiritual graces, Galatians 3:14 , Galatians 4:5 Galatians 4:6 , Ephesians 1:13 ), or by the hearing of faith?" Here he resumes the thought in Galatians 3:2 . Not a member? “For ye are all one in Christ Jesus”: All those who are one with Jesus Christ are one with one another. It is now, and at all times, God's one way of justification. the promise--( Romans 4:21 ). no man disannulleth--"none setteth aside," not even the author himself, much less any second party. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. . Chapter 3 The apostle inquires how they could be so foolish as torenounce the Gospel of Christ and turn back to the law, afterhaving heard, received, and suffered so much for the Gospel, 1-5. The meaning can hardly be "to check transgressions," for the law rather stimulates the corrupt heart to disobey it ( Romans 5:20 , 7:13 ). 22. For the "promise" was substantially the Gospel by anticipation. Chapter. So to those who follow Abraham, the father of the faithful, the blessing, that is, justification, comes purely by faith in Him who is the subject of the promise. II. Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? He, as being One, unites all believers, without distinction, to Himself ( Galatians 3:8 Galatians 3:16 Galatians 3:28 , Ephesians 1:10 , 2:14 ; compare Hebrews 2:11 ) in direct communion. Read and study Galatians 3 with the Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Hi, Sign out. If the law had been a law capable of giving life, "verily (in very reality, and not in the mere fancy of legalists) righteousness would have been by the law (for where life is, there righteousness, its condition, must also be)." Christians should not be separate from each other. children--Greek, "sons" ( Galatians 3:29 ). Therefore our care must be to do the duties that belong to us, and all other cares we must cast upon God. "Is the law (which involves a mediator) against the promises of God (which are without a mediator, and rest on God alone and immediately)? Confirmation of Galatians 3:9 . Or, shall ye, by falling from grace, lose the reward promised for all your sufferings, so that they shall be "in vain" ( Galatians 4:11 1 Corinthians 15:2 1 Corinthians 15:17-19 1 Corinthians 15:29-32 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 2 John 1:8 )? Chapter 3. [ESTIUS]. Christ--not in the exclusive sense, the man Christ Jesus, but "Christ" (Jesus is not added, which would limit the meaning), including His people who are part of Himself, the Second Adam, and Head of redeemed humanity. the heathen--rather, "the Gentiles"; or "the nations," as the same Greek is translated at the end of the verse. unto--"with a view to the faith," &c. We were, in a manner, morally forced to it, so that there remained to us no refuge but faith. Alas, that men should turn from the all-important doctrine of Christ crucified, to listen to useless distinctions, mere moral preaching, or wild fancies! Have ye suffered so many things--namely, persecution from Jews and from unbelieving fellow countrymen, incited by the Jews, at the time of your conversion. Much less would the righteous God do so. So legal Judaism could make no alteration in the fundamental relation between God and man, already established by the promises to Abraham; it could not add as a new condition the observance of the law, in which case the fulfilment of the promise would be attached to a condition impossible for man to perform. I hear with my own ears that I cannot be saved except by the blood and death of Christ. Christ not having come when the law was given, the covenant could not have been then fulfilled, but awaited the coming of Him, the Seed, to whom it was spoken. "Sin, sin! Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. Galatians 3:29 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Galatians 3:29, NIV: "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." He is the good news. PERFECT obedience is required by the words, "in all things." Galatians 3:29, ESV: "And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise." Made perfect by the flesh. See Note there. This was the end of the whole system of sacrifices" [THOLUCK]. B. Compare Galatians 3:8 , "Scripture," for "the God of the Scripture." There is no distinction into male and female. under sin--( Romans 3:9 Romans 3:19 , 11:32 ). Whereas the law brings in a mediator, a third party ( Galatians 3:19 Galatians 3:20 ), God makes His covenant of promise with the one seed, Christ ( Genesis 17:7 ), and embraces others only as they are identified with, and represented by, Christ. The Galatian Christians had believed in Jesus and began enjoying their freedom in Christ. 17. this I say--"this is what I mean," by what I said in Galatians 3:15 . Compare John 1:17 , where the two mediators--Moses, the severing mediator of legal conditions, and Jesus, the uniting mediator of grace--are contrasted. "The Spirit from without, kindles within us some spark of faith Whereby we lay hold of Christ, and even of the Spirit Himself, that He may dwell within us" [FLACIUS]. It asks whether or not we are true followers of Christ and if … At Beer-sheba, after the covenant with Abimelech, Abraham called on the everlasting God, and the well was confirmed to him and his seed as an everlasting possession. Then he feels that the mercy and grace of God form his only hope. 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” # 3:10 Deut. Christ is "Abraham's seed" ( Galatians 3:16 ): ye are "one in Christ" ( Galatians 3:28 ), and one with Christ, as having "put on Christ" ( Galatians 3:27 ); therefore YE are "Abraham's seed," which is tantamount to saying (whence the "and" is omitted), ye are "heirs according to the promise" (not "by the law," Galatians 3:18 ); for it was to Abraham's seed that the inheritance was promised ( Galatians 3:16 ). It was not by the first, but the last. continued . This chapter contains Paul's important argument about Abraham's faith and his 'offspring', a designation for "those belong to Jesus Christ". is the word heard again and again in the Old Testament. Had they been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, by the ministration of the law, or on account of any works done by them in obedience thereto? In the giving of the law, the "angels" were representatives of God; Moses, as mediator, represented the people. The law was not intended to discover a way of justification, different from that made known by the promise, but to lead men to see their need of the promise, by showing the sinfulness of sin, and to point to Christ, through whom alone they could be pardoned and justified. Compare John 8:56 , Hebrews 4:2 . This is not inconsistent with Galatians 3:15 , "No man addeth thereto"; for there the kind of addition meant, and therefore denied, is one that would add new conditions, inconsistent with the grace of the covenant of promise. And those must be very unwise, who suffer themselves to be turned away from the ministry and doctrine which have been blessed to their spiritual advantage. The laws teach God’s holy standards to people. 3. Yet at the same time, Christ, as from the cross, freely invites sinners to take refuge in him. The great design of the law was, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those that believe; that, being convinced of their guilt, and the insufficiency of the law to effect a righteousness for them, they might be persuaded to believe on Christ, and so obtain the benefit of the promise. As Christ was "crucified," so ye ought to have been by faith "crucified with Christ," and so "dead to the law" ( Galatians 2:19 Galatians 2:20 ). But some people have softer heads than hearts. But after he left Galatia, he learned that Judaizers (Greek: Ioudizo—those who live by Jewish So Matthew, writing for Jews, quotes it as "said," or "spoken"; Mark and Luke, writing for Gentiles, as "written" ( Matthew 1:22 , 1:2 , Luke 2:22 Luke 2:23 ) [TOWNSON]. Where justification is, there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith, the latter must also. by angels--as the instrumental enactors of the law [ALFORD] God delegated the law to angels as something rather alien to Him and severe ( Acts 7:53 , Hebrews 2:2 Hebrews 2:3 ; compare Deuteronomy 33:2 , "He came with ten thousands of saints," that is, angels, Psalms 68:17 ). Real Christians enjoy great privileges under the gospel; and are no longer accounted servants, but sons; not now kept at such a distance, and under such restraints as the Jews were. make . In thee--not "in thy seed," which is a point not here raised; but strictly "in thee," as followers of thy faith, it having first shown the way to justification before God [ALFORD]; or "in thee," as Father of the promised seed, namely, Christ ( Galatians 3:16 ), who is the Object of faith ( Genesis 22:18 , Psalms 72:17 ), and imitating thy faith all nations--or as above, "all the Gentiles" ( Genesis 12:3 , 18:18 , 22:18 ). None does so who acts in common equity. Here Jacob received the promise of the blessing, for which God had called Abraham out of Ur, repeated for the last time, on the last night of his sojourn in the land of promise. Was it not by their hearing and embracing the doctrine of faith in Christ alone for justification? © 2020 Christianity.com. Having begun your Christianity in the Spirit, that is, in the divine life that proceeds from faith, are ye seeking after something higher still (the perfecting of your Christianity) in the sensuous and the earthly, which cannot possibly elevate the inner life of the Spirit, namely, outward ceremonies? being made--Greek, "having become." The Scripture is said to foresee, because the Holy Spirit that indited the Scripture did foresee. View Galatians 3 in the note window.. 1: O thoughtless Galatians - He breaks in upon them with a beautiful abruptness.Who hath bewitched you - Thus to contradict both your own reason and experience. THEMISTIUS says the Galatians were naturally very acute in intellect. He died without posterity. would justify--rather, "justifieth." The means of salvation and the means of sanctification is a Person, not a system of works, but a Person, and that Person is the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him the lineal descent from David becomes extinct. 6. I prefer understanding it as a mitigation of the preceding words. Both in and by are included. . The sight of Christ crucified ought to have been enough to counteract all fascination. A proof that "the old fathers did not look only for transitory promises" [Article VII, Church of England]. [CALVIN]. but a man's covenant--whose purpose it is far less important to maintain. One single faultless grain of human nature was found by God Himself, the source of a new and imperishable seed: "the seed" ( Psalms 22:30 ) who receive from Him a new nature and name ( Genesis 3:15 , Isaiah 53:10 Isaiah 53:11 , John 12:24 ). Paul ( Romans 3:30 ) infers the same truth from the ONENESS of God (compare Ephesians 4:4-6 ). On the day following the last repetition of the promise orally ( Genesis 46:1-6 ), at Beer-sheba, Israel passed into Egypt. . foreseeing--One great excellency of Scripture is, that in it all points liable ever to be controverted, are, with prescient wisdom, decided in the most appropriate language. The curse is against all sinners, therefore against all men; for all have sinned, and are become guilty before God: and if, as transgressors of the law, we are under its curse, it must be vain to look for justification by it. Asserts the doctrine of justification by faith, on the exampleof Abraham, 6-9. one . The intent of "Christ becoming a curse for us"; "To the end that upon the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham (that is, promised to Abraham, namely, justification by faith) might come in Christ Jesus" (compare Galatians 3:8 ). But the oldest manuscripts omit the words altogether. All people do … The structure of chapter 3 is easily discernible. Have you taken leave of your senses? "Was it by the works of the law that ye received the Spirit (manifested by outward miracles, … Compare Note, neither male nor female--rather, as Greek, "there is not male and female." But--as the law cannot give life or righteousness [ALFORD]. 24. "And if ye be Christ's, ye are Abraham's SEED, heirs according to the promise.". 9. they--and they alone. The law, though misunderstood by the Judaizers as doing so, was really added for a different purpose, namely, "because of (or as the Greek, 'for the sake of') the transgressions," that is, to bring out into clearer view the transgressions of it ( Romans 7:7-9 ); to make men more fully conscious of their "sins," by being perceived as transgressions of the law, and so to make them long for the promised Saviour. But one new "seed" of a righteous succession could be found. The revelation of God's "wrath" by the law of conscience, in some degree prepared the Gentiles for appreciating redemption through Christ when revealed. The epithet "Holy" is not prefixed to "Spirit" because that epithet is a joyous one, whereas this Epistle is stern and reproving [BENGEL]. These miracles do not prove grace to be in the heart ( mark 9:38 mark 9:39 ). THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US TO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD BY FAITH. Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 3 Are you so foolish? There is in this sonship by faith in Christ, no class privileged above another, as the Jews under the law had been above the Gentiles ( Romans 10:12 , 1 Corinthians 12:13 , Colossians 3:11 ). Having begun in the Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit ruling your spiritual life as its "essence and active principle" [ELLICOTT], in contrast to "the flesh," the element in which the law works [ALFORD]. CHAPTER. God's providence ordered it so that to fulfil the prophecy of the curse and other prophecies, Jesus should be crucified, and so hang on the tree, though that death was not a Jewish mode of execution. (Galatians 3:28) ... (Galatians 3:28-29) Show answer 10. All rights reserved. . Hung between heaven and earth as though unworthy of either! of Hence the law could not be designed to set aside the promise. The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose faith fastened upon the word and promise of God, and upon his believing he was owned and accepted of God as a righteous man. Thus delivered up to the judicial law, we see how awful is the doom we deserve: thus the law at last leads us to Christ, with whom we find righteousness and peace. The blessing of justification was to Abraham by faith in the promise, not by works. Paul referred toDeuteronomy 27… In certain … First, Paul stresses the gullibility of the Galatians. They had the doctrine of the cross preached, and the Lord's supper administered among them, in both which Christ crucified, and the nature of his sufferings, had been fully and clearly set forth. 16. He . However, Vulgate and the old Italian versions translate as English Version. "If, as it must be, what I have said, 'in vain,' is really the fact" [ALFORD]. Though deliverance is not to be expected from the law, there is a way open to escape the curse, and regain the favour of God, namely, through faith in Christ. 11. Seek to be sure of that above all things. Therefore he says, "the Scripture," not the "Law." The Galatians reproved for departing from the great doctrine of justification alone, through faith in Christ. cannot--Greek, "doth not disannul." And our special care must be for heaven; the things of this life are but trifles. I speak after the manner of men--I take an illustration from a merely human transaction of everyday occurrence. And--Greek, "Moreover." 3 O foolish Galatians! Since verses 23-29 bring this argument to its climax, it will be helpful to review briefly the groundwork Paul … Continue reading "Commentary on Galatians 3:23-29" Show me more …. The dispensation of the law, which engenders bondage, was beginning to draw on from the time of his entrance into Egypt, the land of bondage. by faith of Jesus Christ--that is which is by faith in Jesus Christ. Who has bewitched you? Galatians. Christ is to you the toga virilis (the Roman garment of the full-grown man, assumed when ceasing to be a child) [BENGEL]. And I want to make sure we understand this in the message of Galatians. This is a sign of spiritual immaturity, even as … Highlighted parts are key quotes that may have been used on the radio shows. 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