Verse 27
27. Baptized into Christ As the external form and act of the internal faith of the last verse. We may be baptized; but it is the faith which makes it really and truly a baptism into Christ. Paul introduces this baptism as that public proof and profession by which the Galatians had publicly bound themselves.
Into Christ As into the embodiment of redemption, holiness, and eternal life.
Have put Rather, the Greek aorist, put alone. A strict rendering is, whosoever were baptized into Christ put on Christ, that is, in the act of baptism. For though the saving faith exist before the baptism, and may exist without the baptism, yet the apostle objectively dates the full union to Christ with its consummation, external as well as internal, at baptism.
Put on Christ In salvation upon the soul; in Christian profession upon the external life.
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