Gálatas 3:8 NVT

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 3:1-14

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 3:1-2 Chronicles : . It was a strange folly which could lead them to forget the picture, so plainly shown them, of the suffering Saviour. ( 1 ) Their own experience had been of “ the Spirit,” as ( a) the source of ecstatic prayer ( Galatians 4:6), in which the sacred scrap of Aramaic speech ( Mark 14:36) once used by Jesus was employed throughout... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 3:8

The Holy Ghost in Scripture (by whose inspiration the Scripture was written) foreseeing, or knowing, the counsels and designs of God, that the heathen (when the fulness of times as to them should come) should be justified through faith in Christ, preached the same doctrine before unto Abraham; so as it is no new doctrine; the gospel which we now preach unto you, was long since revealed unto Abraham, who saw Christ’s day, and rejoiced, John 8:56. To prove which, he quoteth the promise, Genesis... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 3:6-9

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 3:6. Even as Abraham believed God.—Where justification is there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith the latter must also.Galatians 3:8. Preached before the gospel unto Abraham.—Thus the gospel in its essential germ is older than the law, though the full development of the former is subsequent to the latter. The promise to Abraham was an anticipation of the gospel, not only as announcing the Messiah, but also as involving the doctrine of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Galatians 3:7-9

Galatians 3:7-9 Abraham. "God," says the text, "preached the Gospel to Abraham." The very oath sworn to him by his Maker was, according to the Epistle to the Hebrews, designed to show to the heirs of promise, down the whole stream of time, the immutability of God's counsels. God forbid, cries St. Paul, that any one should think that the law the schoolmaster who was to bring us to Christ was against the promises of God! Though the sanctions of the two covenants might be different a circumstance... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Galatians 3:8-9

DISCOURSE: 2060THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO ABRAHAMGalatians 3:8-9. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.THE point which St. Paul above all things labours to establish, especially in his Epistles to the Romans and the Galatians, is the doctrine of justification by faith alone. The Jews universally were adverse to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Galatians 3:1-29

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 were many churches established there. After Paul's departure, other teachers came in declaring that the people could not be saved by a simple faith in Jesus Christ, but must also to that faith add the obedience to the law and the rituals of the law of circumcision. And many of the people in those... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 3:1-29

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 truth and glory of a crucified Redeemer. The jews and greeks, on seeing Christ set before them, as he is in the scriptures, first suffering and then entering into his glory, have believed on him, and most of them believed under the first sermon they heard. Why then should you, oh misguided men, be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 3:8

Galatians 3:8And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith.The Scripture foreseeingI. God foresaw that He would justify the heathen through faith.II. Foreseeing this issue, God announced it by word of mouth to Abraham.III. Moses recorded it in the spirit of prophecy.IV. Paul justifies this use of scripture here, and in Romans 15:1-4, and 1 Corinthians 10:1-11. See also 1 Peter 1:11-12.V. We may apply it to the New Testament.1. The Scripture foresaw and provided... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Galatians 3:8

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying , In thee shall all nations be blessed. Ver. 8. And the Scripture foreseeing ] Scripture therefore is not a brute dead thing, as the Jesuits blaspheme. Excellently spake he, who called the Scripture, Cor et animam Dei, The heart and soul of God. (Greg. in Reg. 3.) Preached the gospel ] There is gospel therefore in the Old Testament. In thee shall all nations ]... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Galatians 3:8

the scripture: Galatians 3:22, Galatians 4:30, John 7:38, John 7:42, John 19:37, Romans 9:17, 2 Timothy 3:15-Esther : foreseeing: Acts 15:15-Job : God: Romans 3:28-Amos :, Romans 9:30 preached: Hebrews 4:2 In: Galatians 3:16, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 28:14, Genesis 49:10, Psalms 72:7, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 65:9, Acts 2:25, Acts 2:26, Acts 2:35, Revelation 11:15 Reciprocal: Genesis 28:4 - the blessing Isaiah 8:20 - the law Jeremiah 4:2 - and the... read more