Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
Galatians 3:22
All have sinned. Romans 3:23
God's promise is to all who have shown obedient faith.
All have sinned. Romans 3:23
God's promise is to all who have shown obedient faith.
Verse 22. _BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED_] All the writings of the _prophets_ have uniformly declared that men are all _sinners_, and the _law_ declares the same by the continual _sacrifices_ whic...
BUT THE SCRIPTURE - The Old Testament (see the note at John 5:39), containing the Law of Moses. HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN - Has “shut up” (συνέκλεισεν sunekleisen) all under the condemnation of si...
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...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
Why, then, have the law at all? The law was added to the situation to define what transgressions are, until the seed should come, to whom the promise, which still holds good, had been made. That law w...
CONCLUDED. See Romans 11:32. SIN. Greek. hamartia. App-128. Compare Romans 3:10. BELIEVE. App-150....
_But the Scripture_, &c. The impossibility (Theod. Mops.) of obtaining righteousness by legal obedience is proved by the plain testimony of Scripture. It is noteworthy that in this momentous argument...
19–22. _The true place and purpose of the Law. It was subordinate to the promise, and preparatory, by developing the sense of sin_ (Galatians 3:19) (If the inheritance is by the Promise, not by the La...
ἈΛΛᾺ. In contradiction to the hypothesis in Galatians 3:21 b, the statement of Scripture is otherwise. ΣΥΝΈΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ. Galatians 3:23; Romans 11:32;...
ΣΥΝΈΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΛΕΊΩ (G4788) запирать вместе, замыкать со всех сторон. Этот гл. указывает на невозможность побега (Guthrie), ΔΟΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. _Con...
DISCOURSE: 2068 THE TRUE USE OF THE LAW Galatians 3:21. 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 sho...
ALL— The words Τα παντα are used here for _all men._ In Romans 3:9; Romans 3:19 the Apostle expresses the same thing by παντας, _all men,_ and πας ο κοσμος, _all the world:_ but, speaking in the prese...
TEXT 3:21, 22 (21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law. (22) But the scr...
_VERSE 22. BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN._ Where? First in the promises concerning Christ in Genesis 3:15 and in Genesis 22:18, which speak of the seed of the woman and the seed of Ab...
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. BUT - So far is righteousness from being of the law, that, etc., Roma...
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...
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...
CONCLUDED ALL] RV 'shut up all things.' The OT. teaches what the Gospel teaches, that all need a gracious salvation. Both Law and Gospel contemplate the same ultimate end. 'The connexion of the argume...
People in the world are not free. Their strong desire to *sin controls them. *Sin is like a prison. People cannot be free from their *sin even if they try very hard. But Jesus Christ can free people f...
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...
(21-24) If the Law was thus inferior to the promise, does it therefore follow that it is contrary to it? By no means. The Law could not indeed give life; it could not justify, or place in a state of r...
THE SCRIPTURE. — Slightly personified. HATH CONCLUDED. — The same peculiar word occurs in Romans 11:32, with a similar sense. It means to “shut up,” “hem in,” “prevent from straying either to the rig...
CHAPTER 14 THE DESIGN OF THE LAW. Galatians 3:19 "WHAT then is the law?" So the Jew might well exclaim. Paul has been doing nothing but disparage it.-"You say that the Law of Moses brings no righteo...
The real function of the Law was not to justify but to convict of sin, that men might the more readily turn in humble faith to Christ for relief from the burden of an accusing conscience. ἡ γραφὴ. The...
THE LAW WAS A TEMPORARY ENACTMENT ORDAINED TO DEAL WITH THE OFFENCES WHICH IT DENOUNCES UNTIL THE COMING OF THE PROMISED SEED. THE GOD FROM WHOM IT PROCEEDED WAS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, BUT HE PROMULGATED...
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...
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...
But the (s) scripture hath concluded (t) all under sin, that the (u) promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (s) By this word "scripture" he means the Law. (t) All mank...
_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...
(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...
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...
_GOD’S GIFTS AND MAN’S FAITH_ ‘The promise by faith of Jesus Christ … given to them that believe.’ Galatians 3:22 It would be difficult to say what portion of Holy Scripture can be of more vital mo...
22._The Scripture hath concluded_. By the word Scripture is chiefly intended the law itself. It “hath concluded all under sin,” and therefore, instead of giving, it takes away righteousness from all....
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...
BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN,.... By the "Scripture" is meant, either the writing of the law in particular, the killing letter, or the whole Scripture, or God in it; and who by and i...
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Ver. 22. _But the Scripture_] The law and the prophets. _ Hath conclude...
_Is the law then_ Which requires perfect obedience, and subjects all that in any respect violate it, to the curse, _against_, or contrary to, _the promises of God_ Wherein he declares that he will jus...
HATH CONCLUDED; declared all to be shut up under sin and condemnation, so that there is no way of escape except by faith in Christ....
PROOFS FOR THE LIBERTY OF A CHRISTIAN FROM THE NATURE AND MEANING OF THE LAW. The secondary office of the Law:...
BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISE BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST MIGHT BE GIVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE. The apostle here meets an objection which the opponents might make. If th...
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...
19-22 If that promise was enough for salvation, wherefore then serveth the law? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's peculiar people, were sinners as well as others. The law was not intended to...
BUT THE SRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN: it pleased God to give a law, which, if Adam had continued in his estate of innocence, might have given life; but considering man in his lapsed state, th...
But the scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. [The apostle now undertakes to show the inferiority of the law to the gos...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V His own antagonist! For this (I suppose it was, that) the law of the Creator had "concluded all under sin,"[632]...
Galatians 3:22 But G235 Scripture G1124 confined G4788 (G5656) all G3956 under G5259 sin G266 that G2443 promise...
‘But the Scripture has shut up (concluded) all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.' Indeed the Scripture declares that through the Law's te...
WHAT THEN WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW? (GALATIANS 3:19). He now raises the question as to what the purpose of the Law is....
Galatians 3:22. THE SCRIPTURE, the whole Old Testament, including the law. It is here personified as in Galatians 3:8, and stands for the author of the Scripture. The Apostle may have had in mind a sp...
_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...
HATH SHUT UP (συνεκλεισεν). Did shut together. First aorist active indicative of συνκλειω, old verb to shut together, on all sides, completely as a shoal of fish in a net (Luke 5:6). So verse Galati...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BUT THE SCRIPTURE. "The scripture shows that all the people of earth, both Jew and Gentile, are held as slaves by sin and are under God's curse. The only way out of this curse, is through the promised...
_But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin._ A CHARGE OF SIN I. The scripture statement of man’s natural condition. And what now do you expect to hear? That man, though fallen and frail, has nev...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 3:22 The law (THE SCRIPTURE), instead of giving “life” (v. Galatians 3:21) with God, imprisoned everything under
_But the scripture hath concluded all under sin._ This Scripture is cited in Romans 3:9. VER. 23. _Before faith came._ Like slaves under the stern discipline of the law, we were kept as though by wall...
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 3:22. THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN.—The written letter was needed so as permanently to convict man of disobedience to God’s command. He is shu...
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...
1 John 2:25; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:13;...
But it is not true that the law gives life, for the law, according to scripture, condemned all alike. The scripture [η γ ρ α φ η]. Scripture is personified. See on verse 8. Hath concluded [σ υ ν ε κ λ...
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...
But, on the contrary, the scripture wherein that law is written hath concluded all under sin — Hath shut them up together, (so the word properly signifies,) as in a prison, under sentence of death, to...