_Before whose eyes Jesus Christ....crucified among you. [1] The common
exposition is, that St. Paul had before described and set before them
Christ crucified. Others, that it had been clearly foretold by the
prophets that Christ was crucified for them. (Witham)_
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Præscriptus, _Greek:... [ Continue Reading ]
_Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law? As if he said,
you esteem it a great favour to have received those spiritual gifts of
working miracles, &c. When you were made Christians, had you these
favours by the works of the law, or was it not by the hearing of
faith, and by the faith of Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_If yet in vain: i.e. I have still good hopes, that what you have
already suffered by persecutions and self-denials, since your
conversion, will not be in vain; as they would be, if you sought to be
justified by the works and ceremonies of the law of Moses, and not by
the faith and law of Christ, by... [ Continue Reading ]
_As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him
unto justice. See Romans iv. 3. They only who imitate the faith of
Abraham shall be blessed with him, and are his spiritual children,
whether Jews or Gentiles, whom God promised to bless by the seed of
Abraham; i.e. by Christ, who de... [ Continue Reading ]
Are under a curse....cursed is every man, &c. The sense of these is to
be found Deuteronomy xxvii. 26. in the Septuagint. Some expound them
thus: curses are pronounced against every one who keeps not all the
precepts of the law, but there is not any one; i.e. scarce any one,
who keepeth them all; th... [ Continue Reading ]
I speak after the manner of man; or, by a comparison, says St. John
Chrysostom, common among men. If a man make or execute his last will,
or any deed or contract, it stands good; no one contemns it, or
pretends to annul it, or add any thing to it: how much more shall the
testament, the covenant, or... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hath concluded all under sin; i.e. hath declared all to be under sin,
from which they could not be delivered but by faith in Jesus Christ,
the promised seed. (Challoner) --- The law was not given to all; but
all its precepts and prohibitions were binding under sin, and all
violators of the law were... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Egypt.
The law was a pedagogue, or schoolmaster, to direct and correct and
bring men to Christ, ou... [ Continue Reading ]
The baptism of infants shews that the sacrament gives grace of itself,
by divine appointment; or, as divines say, _ex opere operato._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Neither Jew, &c. That is, no distinction of Jew, &c. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]