Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II
Whether, then, Egypt and the land of Canaan be the symbol of the world and of deceit, or of sufferings and afflictions; the oracle shows us what must be abstained from, and what, being divine and not worldly, must be observed. And when it is said, "The man that doeth them shall live in them,"[105]
Verse 12. _AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH_] It promises no forgiveness to believing, but requires obedience. It is not, What do you _believe_? but, What have you _done? The man that doeth_ _them_ perfec...
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH - The Law is not a matter of faith; it does not relate to faith; it does not require faith; it deals in other matters, and it pertains to another system than to faith. BUT,...
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...
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 GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
All who depend on the deeds which the law lays down are under a curse, for it stands written, "Cursed is everyone who does not consistently obey and perform all the things written in the book of the l...
THE MAN. App-123 :1, but the texts read "He". This quotation is from Leviticus 18:5....
_is not of faith_ -does not spring out of, or start from faith", but its principle is performance. This is clearly laid down in Revelation 18:5, -He that doeth them &c.". We observe that -justificatio...
St Paul by reference to two other familiar passages of the O.T. confirms his assertion that justification cannot be by the Law. He has proved from Scripture that no man can be justified by a Law which...
Ὁ ΔῈ ΝΌΜΟΣ. In contrast to the effect of faith just mentioned. ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΣΤΙΝ ἘΚ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ. The Law has not faith, as the fundamental principle, or basis, of its existence. The phrase is even stronger than...
10–14. _Works, regarded as a source of life, bring a curse, faith the blessing and the Spirit_ (Galatians 3:10) (It is only faith that brings the blessing) for as many as draw their religious life fro...
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (subst.)_ от ΠΟΙΈΩ (G2198) делать, практиковать. _Aor._ обозначает завершенное действие, ΖΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med., см._ Galatians 3:11....
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH:— As the Apostle shews here, that there was no obtaining life by the _law,_ without an immaculate obedience; _faith,_ which is used here in opposition to it, must signify a...
Justification by faith proved by the inability of the Law to Justify. Galatians 3:10-12 TEXT 3:10-12 (10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is ev...
_ VERSE 12. AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH._ In direct opposition to the scholastics Paul declares: "The law is not of faith." What is this charity the scholastics talk so much about? Does not the Law co...
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. AND - `But' [ de (G1161)]. DOETH, [ Poieesas (G4160)] - 'he who hath done.' Many depended on the law, although they d...
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...
3:12 by (g-21) _ En_ . meaning 'in the power of,' 'in virtue of,' 'according to the principle and nature of.' them. (i-22) See Leviticus 18:5 ....
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...
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...
A person has to work hard to obey the laws. He has to concentrate on the laws. The laws affect every part of his life. But he can do it all by his own effort. That person can obey the laws, although h...
THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH. — The ruling principle of the Law is not faith, but something else — works. THE MAN THAT DOETH THEM. — By “them” is meant the “statutes” and “judgments” mentioned immediately...
The Law could not bring a blessing. It could not justify. For the condition of justification is faith; and the Law has nothing to do with faith. Its standpoint was entirely different — that of works....
(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law; just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness. Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends...
CHAPTER 12 ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE. Galatians 3:6 FAITH then, we have learnt, not works of law, was the condition on which the Galatians received the Spirit of Christ. By this gate th...
The failure of the Law to justify is further established by a comparison of Habakkuk 2:4 with Leviticus 18:5 : the latter embodies the spirit of the Law: for it demands obedience as a necessary condit...
BY FAITH MEN BECOME SONS OF ABRAHAM AND INHERIT HIS BLESSING, WHEREAS THOSE WHO CLAIM IT ON THE SCORE OF OBEDIENCE TO LAW ARE SUBJECT TO THE CURSE OF A BROKEN LAW; FROM WHICH CHRIST REDEEMED US, GENTI...
INHERITORS OF THE PROMISE Galatians 3:11 We are not under ceremonial law, as contained in the precepts of Leviticus. Our Savior has perfectly fulfilled them on the behalf of the Jewish people, whom H...
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...
(13) And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. (13) Here is a reason shown of the former conclusion: because the law promises life to all that keep it, and therefo...
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...
(10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (11) B...
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...
12._And the law is not of faith_. The law evidently is not contrary to faith; otherwise God would be unlike himself; but we must return to a principle already noticed, that Paul’s language is modified...
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...
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH,.... The Arabic version adds, "but of man"; which as it is an addition to the text, so it contains false doctrine; for though the law is not of faith, yet not of man, but o...
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Ver. 12. _And the law is not of faith_] Because it promiseth not life to those that will be justified by faith, but requi...
_That no man is justified by_ his obedience to _the law in the sight of God_ Whatever he may be in the sight of man; _is_ further _evident _ From the words of Habakkuk, who hath said nothing of men's...
THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH; does not promise justification by faith, but by works. BUT; that is, but its language is. SHALL LIVE IN THEM; by doing them. The law knows nothing of grace, but demands abso...
Paul's opponents are subject to the curse of the broken Law:...
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH; BUT, THE MAN THAT DOETH THEM SHALL LIVE IN THEM....
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...
This is not how we are saved! Habakkuk 2:4 God has always asked for obedient faith. Verse 12 references Leviticus 18:5 The law of Moses did not demand faith. Obedience to the law would bring blessi...
6-14 The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does from the example of Abraham, whose fa...
The law saith nothing of faith in the Mediator; though faith in God be commanded in the first precept, yet faith in Christ is not commanded by the law as that by which the soul shall live. For that wh...
and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. [Leviticus 18:5. Moreover, later prophecy bears out the earlier declaration made to Abraham, for it says that the righteous obt...
Galatians 3:12 Yet G1161 law G3551 is G2076 (G5748) not G3756 of G1537 faith G4102 but G235 man...
‘Now that no man is reckoned as righteous by the Law in the sight of God is evident, for “The righteous shall live by faith”. And the Law is not of faith, but “He who does them shall live in them”.' F...
THE LAW CAN ONLY CONDEMN US BUT WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE LAW (GALATIANS 3:10). Paul then points out the folly of trying to become acceptable to God by our own works....
Galatians 3:10-12. Negative proof of Galatians 3:9, by showing the impossibility of justification by law, because we cannot keep the law, and the violation of the law subjects us to its curse (comp. R...
THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH (ο νομος ουκ εστιν εκ πιστεως). Law demands complete obedience and rests not on mercy, faith, grace....
Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the...
Galatians 3:1. _O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,_ Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by it. This seemed to astonish the apostle, so he cries o...
Galatians 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? This only would I lea...
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...
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...
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...
DOES NOT DEPEND ON FAITH. _Johnson_ says: "It is not a system of faith, but proclaims life by _doing_ the Law, rather than by faith. But since none can keep it perfectly, all are under the curse (Gala...
_And the law is not of faith._ THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL I. They differ in the work of our justification. 1. The law promiseth life to him that performs perfect obedience, and that for his works. 2....
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:12 Paul uses Leviticus 18:5 to show that THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH. Paul probably means the same thing here as in...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:1 Direct Appeals to the Galatians. Paul gives several reasons why the Galatians should resist false teachers. ⇐
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...
_And the law is not of faith._ The law neither teaches nor gives the grace by which we fulfil the law and live righteously. _But_, as is said in Ezekiel 20:11, _the man that doeth_ what the law comman...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:10. AS MANY AS ARE OF THE WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE.—This the Scripture itself declares. It utters an anathema against all who fail to fulfil e...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 20:11; Ezekiel 20:13; Leviticus 18:5; Luke 10:25; Matthe
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...
And the law is not of faith — But quite opposite to it: it does not say, Believe; but, Do. Leviticus 18:5...