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. 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... [ Continue Reading ]
The promise having once been given, no subsequent enactment like the
Law can interfere with it. (Similarly Heb. emphasizes the priority in
time of Melchizedek to Aaron.) Even in human affairs, a scrap of paper
which records an agreement is not torn up without tragic and memorable
consequences. (It h... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]