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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Galatians 3:21-29

(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 hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (23) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 3:26-29

26-29 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. Having accepted Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and relying on him alone for justification and salvation, they become the sons of God. 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. In baptism we put on Christ; therein we... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Galatians 3:1-99

Galations 3 THE APOSTLE CALLS them “foolish” or senseless, for they had not themselves had the spiritual sense to see whither these false teachers had been leading them. They had been like men bewitched, and under a spell of evil, and they had been led to the brink of the awful conclusion that Christ had died for nothing that His death had been in fact a huge mistake! On the edge of this precipice they were standing, and the Apostle’s pungent reasoning had come as a flash of light amidst their... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Galatians 3:23-29

The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed: v. 23. But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. v. 24. Wherefore the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. v. 25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. v. 26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. v. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Galatians 3:19-29

(Galatians 3:19 to Galatians 4:7.)a. The law had its own sufficient end, having respect to transgressions, and so far from opposing to the promises, it had the office of preparing the way for their fulfilment, as a schoolmaster unto ChristFootnotes:Galatians 3:15; Galatians 3:15—[Κεκυρωμένην, simply “confirmed.” If anything be supplied, it need not be in the conditional form of the E. V.—R.]Galatians 3:15; Galatians 3:15.—[“Disannulleth” is now obsolete, the simple form being of precisely the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Galatians 3:20-29

the Law Leads to Christ Galatians 3:20-29 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 fullness of His salvation. It was the tutor of the Hebrew people, to enable them to become the religious teachers of mankind. It could not, therefore, take the place of the great covenant of grace, which had been initiated with Abraham before he had received the rite of circumcision, and when he... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Galatians 3:1-29

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 receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or, having begun in the Spirit, are they now perfected in the flesh? Was their suffering in vain? Was that Spirit supplied, and those miracles wrought by the works of the law? The answers to these questions are perfectly clear, and reveal a positive... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Galatians 3:10-29

The Cross and Its Objectives Galatians 3:10-29 ; Galatians 4:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have nothing to present to a dying world. On one occasion the president of a college told us that his chief ambition was to present to his students the beautiful life of Jesus of Nazareth. We immediately replied that there could be no excessive imitation of the life of Christ until first of all... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 3:26

‘For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.’ For having responded to Christ we are accepted as righteous in God’s sight and are thus adopted as full grown sons, sons who have reached maturity, a sonship received ‘in Christ Jesus’, through faith. This will be expanded on shortly (Galatians 4:4-7). We are thus free from all restraint except the restraint of sonship. We are no longer children subjected to rules and regulations, but like Abraham full grown sons who respond to the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 3:23-29

Galatians 3:23-Joel : . 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 Corinthians 4:15 *). Now that Christ has appeared there is no room for a law-regime. Sonship, faith, a new humanity “ put on” like a garment at baptism ( Galatians 3:27; cf. Romans 13:14, and in a modified application, 1 Corinthians 15:53 f.), these are the privileges... read more