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Verse Galatians 3:29. _AND IF YE_ BE _CHRIST'S_] Or, as several good
MSS. read, _If ye_ be _one in Christ_. If ye have all received
justification through his blood, and the mind that was in him, then...
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AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S - If you belong to the Messiah, and are
interested in his work.
THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM’S SEED - The promise made to Abraham related to
the Messiah. It was a promise that in him all...
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II. CONTRASTS BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The gift of the Spirit not by the works of the law, but by
hearing of faith. (Galatians 3:1)_
2. Righteousness not bestowed by the law, but by fai...
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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
Cor...
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Before faith came we were under guard under the power of the law, shut
up and waiting for the day when faith would be revealed. So that the
law was really our tutor to bring us to Christ so that we mi...
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THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
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HEIRS. See Romans 4:13.
ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata_, as verses: Galatians 3:1; Galatians 3:15....
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The selection of the metaphor of Galatians 3:24 is by no means
accidental. It suggests and leads up to the grand revelation of Gospel
blessedness contained in the peroration to this chapter. The very...
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_If ye be Christ's_ If ye are by faith incorporated into Christ, the
promised Seed, then by virtue of that living union ye are yourselves
Abraham's seed. The paraphrase of Theod. Mops. is remarkable:...
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25–29. See note at Galatians 3:23
(Galatians 3:25) But when that faith came—we believers are no longer
under a paedagogue. (Galatians 3:26) For all (not Jews only) of you
are sons of God (with full pr...
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23–4:7. _The contrast between our former state of pupillage under
the Law, and our present state in Christ, full sonship_
This is brought out under two aspects:
I. Galatians 3:23-29. The preparative c...
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ΕἸ ΔῈ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. A few “western”
authorities assimilate these words to the form of Galatians 3:28.
29. ΕἸ ΔῈ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. Observe the emphasis
on ὑμεῖς. If ye, ye Galatians, Gentiles though...
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ΚΑΤ' ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΝ (G2596; G1860) согласно
обещанию,
ΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΟΣ (G2818) наследник. Это не
значит, что верующий наследует землю
обетованную, обещанную Аврааму, но
скорее, что он наследует
благословение о...
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DISCOURSE: 2069
BENEFITS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BAPTISM
Galatians 3:27. _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor fre...
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AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, &C.— That is, if ye are united by faith to
_Him,_ who is the promised Seed, _then are ye the true seed of
Abraham,_ and, in consequence of this, heirs according to the promise....
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TEXT 3:26-29
(26) For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. (27)
for as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.
(28) There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there ca...
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_ VERSE 29. AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND
HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE._...
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And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
AND HEIRS. So G. But A B C Delta 'Aleph (') f, Vulgate, omit "and."
Christ is "Abraham's seed:" ye are "one in...
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3 Paul now appeals to the experience of the Galatians themselves.
Before the Judaisers came they received the Spirit of God, and
suffered for the evangel, and did mighty works quite apart from the
law...
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JUSTIFICATION IS BY FAITH, NOT WORKS
1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from
faith to legal observances, reminding them of the fact that their
reception of the Spirit h...
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ABRAHAM'S SEED] his spiritual descendants. Not lineal descent from
Abraham, but spiritual kinship to him through a faith like his,
determines whether we are heirs of the promise made to him....
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God had given his laws to the *Jews. But now everyone can receive the
good things that God promised to Abraham. *Gentiles do not need to
obey the *Jewish laws. And they do not need to become *Jews. Th...
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CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE
GALATIANS
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 3
LIVE BY GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT, NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS
V1 You Galatians are foolish. You behave as if someone has used magic
powers to lead...
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Conclusion of the whole argument. The followers of the Messiah are the
true seed of Abraham. The kingdom of the Messiah, which they possess,
is the promised inheritance....
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(25-29) But now the Law has been exchanged for the dispensation of
faith. Henceforth the old state of pupilage is at an end. We are no
longer like children, but adult members of the divine family —
_s...
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CHAPTER 15
THE EMANCIPATED SONS OF GOD.
Galatians 3:25
"FAITH has come!" At this announcement Law the tutor yields up his
charge; Law the jailor sets his prisoner at liberty. The age of
servitude ha...
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ὑμεῖς. The emphatic insertion of ὑμεῖς before
Χριστοῦ in preference to Χριστοῦ ἐστέ lays stress
apparently on the wonderful transformation of men who had been aliens
from the people of God into member...
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BUT NOW WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN. YE ARE ALL SONS OF GOD: AT YOUR
BAPTISM YE PUT ON CHRIST, AND WERE INVESTED WITH SPIRITUAL MANHOOD:
ALL PREVIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF CREED OR RACE, OF POSITION OR NATURE...
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THE LAW LEADS TO CHRIST
Galatians 3:20
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 fullne...
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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...
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REFLECTIONS
Oh! the weakness of the Galatians, to be looking unto Christ only in
part; and for a moment to fancy, that having began in the Spirit, they
could be made perfect in the flesh. And is there...
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(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 ha...
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Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by
the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of
God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
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29._Then are ye Abraham’s seed_. This is not intended to convey the
idea, that to be a child of Abraham is better than to be a member of
Christ, — but to repress the pride of the Jews, who gloried in...
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What a loss, dreadful and irreparable, to lose such a Christ, as we,
under grace, have known Him; such a righteousness; such a love; the
Son of God our portion, our life; the Son of God devoted for us...
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FOR IF YE BE CHRIST'S,.... Or seeing ye are his, not by creation only,
but by the Father's gift to him, by the purchase of his own blood, by
the power of his grace, making them willing to give up them...
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And if ye _be_ Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
Ver. 29. _Heirs according_] Heirs are kept short in their under age,
and sometimes forced to borrow of servant...
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_For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ_ In consequence
of your believing in him with your heart unto righteousness, and have
thereby testified and professed your faith in him; _have put...
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CHRIST'S; united to Christ by believing on him.
ABRAHAM'S SEED; for the one seed of Abraham to whom the promise was
made is Christ, verse Galatians 3:16. All, then, that are united to
Christ by faith...
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AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND HEIRS ACCORDING
TO THE PROMISE.
The apostle here completes his discussion as to the purpose of the Law
by holding before the Galatians an example...
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The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:...
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FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING
(vs.1-9)
"0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as
Paul considers the principles and tremendous issues involved, that he
speaks out...
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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 acce...
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And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to
promise. [The promise was given to Christ, the seed of Abraham, and if
ye are Christ's, then are ye in him heirs of that promise....
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Galatians 3:29 And G1161 if G1487 you G5210 Christs G5547 then G686
are G2075 (G5748) Abrahams G11 seed...
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‘And if you are Christ's then you are Abraham's seed, heirs
according to the promise.'
The idea of being ‘clothed with Christ' and indwelt by Christ is now
connected back with the promise given to Abr...
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Galatians 3:29. AND IF YE ARE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED,
HEIRS ACCORDING to premise. The final conclusion of this profound,
comprehensive, varied, and terse reasoning, in proof of the asser...
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_The Educational Mission of the Law_.
Paul now assumes a milder tone, and reasons with the Galatians from
the common dealings of men. Even a human covenant is sacred and cannot
be set aside, much more...
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IF YE ARE CHRIST'S
(ε δε υμεις Χριστου). This is the test, not the
accident of blood, pride of race or nation, habiliments or environment
of dress or family, whether man or woman. Thus one comes to...
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3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set
forth, crucified among you?_
These Galatians thought that...
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CONTENTS: Gift of Spirit by faith apart from law-works. Man under
law-works is under the law curse. Christ bears the law curse that we
might have the faith blessing. The true intent of the law.
CHARA...
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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 trut...
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IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST. "Since Christ is _the descendant_ of Abraham,
in your union with Christ, you become what He is, and will receive
God's promise, as a spiritual descendant of Abraham." [In the...
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_For we are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus._
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY
“Liberty, equality, and fraternity,” is the three-fold watchword
of the masses in modern society. The...
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CHAPTER 3
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
S. Paul proceeds to prove by five reasons that we are justified not by
the law, or the works of the law, but by Christ.
I. The first proof is drawn (ver. 2) from e...
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_If_ _ye be Christ's._ Ifyou are members of the Head, and are the
mystical body of its Spirit, then, as Christ is, so are ye Abraham's
seed, and hence inheritors of the righteousness promised to Abrah...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Galatians 3:26. YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD.—No longer children
requiring a tutor, but sons emancipated and walking at liberty.
Galatians 3:28. YE ARE ALL ONE IN C...
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EXPOSITION
GALATIANS 3:1
O FOOLISH GALATIANS (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In
thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present behaviour,
not any lack of intelligence on their part in general...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 2
Corinthians 10:7;...
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THE CROSS AND ITS OBJECTIVES
Galatians 3:10; Galatians 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and
spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have...
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If ye are Christ's — That is, believers in him....
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That is, "If ye be Christ's servants and subjects, then are ye the
true seed of faithful Abraham, and heirs of the blessing, according to
the promise made to him and to his seed." This our apostle ass...