Galatians 3:7 Abraham. "God," says the text, "preached the Gospel to Abraham." The very oath sworn to him by his Maker was, according to the Epistle to the Hebrews, designed to show to the heirs of promise, down the whole stream of time, the immutability of God's counsels. God forbid, cries St. Pau... [ Continue Reading ]
Galatians 3:13 _(with Romans 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 4:1; Galatians 4:5; Romans 7:4)_ The Saviour of Men. Take the illustration of a drowning man, and compare it with the hapless condition of sinful men. In order to save the man there must be six conditions of success. I. Some one f... [ Continue Reading ]
Galatians 3:23 The Reasonableness of the Gospel. I. There is something of a military allusion in this passage which it may be well to point out. The expression "kept under the law" denotes in the original being kept as in a citadel or garrison. It is this expression, "shut up unto the faith," which... [ Continue Reading ]
Galatians 3:24 Love in the Schooling of the Law. Over all righteousness before men the will has power, because it is a righteousness of outward acts; but the will has not power over the desires and affections, in other words over the superior faculties of which it is a servant. It can produce good... [ Continue Reading ]
Galatians 3:28 Unity in Diversity. St. Paul makes a threefold separation of the human race into two dissimilar classes. This classification is governed by (1) the great intellectual differences and antagonisms among men, (2) the chief emotional and constitutional differences of character, and (3)... [ Continue Reading ]