McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Galatians 3:25
But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.
But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Verse 25. _BUT, AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME_] When Christ was manifested in the flesh, and the _Gospel_ was preached, we were no longer under the pedagogue; we came to Christ, learned of him, became wise...
BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME - The scheme of salvation by faith. After that is revealed; see the note at Galatians 3:23. WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER - Under the poedagogus, or pedagogue. We...
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...
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...
THE GIFT OF GRACE (Galatians 3:1-9)...
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...
NO LONGER. See Galatians 3:18....
_But after that faith is come_ See note on Galatians 3:23....
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...
25. To he joined with the following, not the preceding, verses. St Paul is always practical. He will, if possible, wean the Galatians from the error of going back to the Law, and he here begins to sta...
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...
ΈΛΘΟΎΣΗΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, прибывать. _Gen. abs._ Temp. _part. Aor_ . выражает действие, логически предшествующее действию основного гл.: "после того, как пришла вера"....
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...
TEXT 3:23-25 (23) But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Chri...
_VERSE 25. BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER._ The Apostle declares that we are free from the Law. Christ fulfilled the Law for us. We may live in joy and safety unde...
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 'But now that faith (which makes the man full-grown) is come,' etc. Moses the lawgiver cannot bring us into the heavenly Canaan,...
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...
The Law is the stern jailer or disciplinarian; Faith the liberator from bondage and chastisement. WE] i.e. the Jews....
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...
The law had a purpose in the past that would not last. When people trust Christ, the purpose of the law ends. The Christians in Galatia thought that they also should obey the law. They thought that th...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
25._But after that faith is come_. This phrase has been already considered. It denotes the brighter revelation of grace after that “the vail of the temple was rent in twain,” (Matthew 27:51,) which, w...
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 AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME,.... That is, since Christ the object of faith is come in the flesh, and has fulfilled the law, and redeemed them that were under it from its bondage, curse, and condemnat...
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Ver. 25. _But after that faith_] That is, the gospel, or Christ the author and matter of the gospel. See Galatians 3:23 ....
_Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster_ That is, the instructer of the childhood of us Jews, or of the church of God, in its state of minority; see on Galatians 4:3; _to bring us unto Christ_ To trai...
NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER; having believed on Christ, he had adopted them as his children and given them in the gospel all needed instruction, so that they had no further need of the ritual obser...
BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER....
The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:...
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...
Tutor - One who takes children from their home to shcool and protects them from harm. Christ is the teacher. The law is the school bus driver to take Israel to the teacher. Once they are in the class...
23-25 The law did not teach a living, saving knowledge; but, by its rites and ceremonies, especially by its sacrifices, it pointed to Christ, that they might be justified by faith. And thus it was, a...
After that Christ, the object of saving faith, was in the fulness of time revealed, and the gospel, which is the doctrine of faith, was fully revealed and published, the time of our nonage was over....
Galatians 3:25 But G1161 faith G4102 come G2064 (G5631) are G2070 (G5748) longer G2089 G3765 under...
‘But before faith came we were kept in ward (kept under restraint) under the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed, so that the Law has been our custodian to bring us to Chri...
_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...
SCHOOLMASTER (Greek, "paidagōgos", "child-conductor"); "among the Greeks and Romans, persons, for the most part slaves, who had it in charge to educate and give constant attendance upon boys till th...
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...
NOW. "There is no longer any NEED for The Law to be in charge of us!!!...
_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...
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...
Galatians 4:1; Galatians 3:23; Hebrews 10:15; Hebrews 7:11;...
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 faith — That is, the gospel dispensation. Being come, we are no longer under that schoolmaster — The Mosaic dispensation....