Who has bewitched you [a]that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed [b]among you as crucified? the same--these, and these alone, to the exclusion of all the other descendants of Abraham. yet--rather, "If it be really (or 'indeed') in vain" [ELLICOTT]. This accords with Galatians 3:23 Galatians 3:24 , Romans 4:15 . In the spiritual seed there is no distinction of Jew or Greek; but to the literal seed, the promises still in part remain to be fulfilled ( Romans 11:26 ). is the word heard again and again in the Old Testament. ordained--Greek, "constituted" or "disposed." He used his personal testimony as evidence of the truth of his gospel in 1:10-2:21, but here he uses their personal experiences. He asked them to remember how they received the Holy Spirit and from whom. The blessing of justification was to Abraham by faith in the promise, not by works. But he specifies the Gentiles in particular here, as it was their case that was in question, the Galatians being Gentiles. Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Salem Media Group. The argument is, By baptism ye have put on Christ; and therefore, He being the Son of God, ye become sons by adoption, by virtue of His Sonship by generation. At Beer-sheba, after the covenant with Abimelech, Abraham called on the everlasting God, and the well was confirmed to him and his seed as an everlasting possession. unto--"with a view to the faith," &c. We were, in a manner, morally forced to it, so that there remained to us no refuge but faith. Not that the Jews put to death malefactors by hanging; but after having put them to death otherwise, in order to brand them with peculiar ignominy, they hung the bodies on a tree, and such malefactors were accursed by the law (compare Acts 5:30 , 10:39 ). Galatians 3:29 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Galatians 3:29, NIV: "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." He . STUDY FOUR: FAITH VERSUS LAW: GALATIANS 3:1-14 A. PAUL REBUKES THE GALATIANS A. Reference to the "eyes" is appropriate, as fascination was supposed to be exercised through the eyes. At that point he is superseded by Joshua, the type of Jesus, who leads the true Israel into their inheritance. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been as evidently set forth - By our preaching, as if he had been crucified among you. The sight of Christ crucified ought to have been enough to counteract all fascination. The heavy sufferings of the Son of God, more loudly warn sinners to flee from the wrath to come, than all the curses of the law; for how can God spare any man who remains under sin, seeing that he spared not his own Son, when our sins were charged upon him? The covenant was not made with "many" seeds (which if there had been, a pretext might exist for supposing there was one seed before the law, another under the law; and that those sprung from one seed, say the Jewish, are admitted on different terms, and with a higher degree of acceptability, than those sprung from the Gentile seed), but with the one seed; therefore, the promise that in Him "all the families of the earth shall be blessed" ( Genesis 12:3 ), joins in this one Seed, Christ, Jew and Gentile, as fellow heirs on the same terms of acceptability, namely, by grace through faith ( Romans 4:13 ); not to some by promise, to others by the law, but to all alike, circumcised and uncircumcised, constituting but one seed in Christ ( Romans 4:16 ). "Sin, sin! Chapter 3. Deuteronomy 5:5 , "I stood between the Lord and you": the very definition of a mediator. Both in and by are included. This is not inconsistent with Galatians 3:15 , "No man addeth thereto"; for there the kind of addition meant, and therefore denied, is one that would add new conditions, inconsistent with the grace of the covenant of promise. 10. The law that thus interposed a mediator and conditions between man and God, was an exceptional state limited to the Jews, and parenthetically preparatory to the Gospel, God's normal mode of dealing, as He dealt with Abraham, namely, face to face directly; by promise and grace, and not conditions; to all nations united by faith in the one seed ( Ephesians 2:14 Ephesians 2:16 Ephesians 2:18 ), and not to one people to the exclusion and severance from the ONE common Father, of all other nations. added--to the original covenant of promise. No doubt the Galatians thought that they were going more deeply into the Spirit; for the flesh may be easily mistaken for the Spirit, even by those who have made progress, unless they continue to maintain a pure faith [BENGEL]. So legal Judaism could make no alteration in the fundamental relation between God and man, already established by the promises to Abraham; it could not add as a new condition the observance of the law, in which case the fulfilment of the promise would be attached to a condition impossible for man to perform. Overview of Galatians 3 Faith or Observance of the Law Verses 1-14 ask a lot of questions of whether or not we were obeying the law of Christ or if we were just listening to the law of Christ. Then he feels that the mercy and grace of God form his only hope. continued . 1. that ye should not obey the truth--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. that ministereth--or "supplieth," God ( 2 Corinthians 9:10 ). But the awakened sinner discovers his dreadful condition. 16. The Gentile Galatians, by putting themselves under the law, were involving themselves in the curse from which Christ has redeemed the Jews primarily, and through them the Gentiles. that we might receive the promise of the Spirit--the promised Spirit ( Joel 2:28 Joel 2:29 , Luke 24:49 ). make . Accordingly, the "we," in "that we might receive the promise of the Spirit," plainly refers to both Jews and Gentiles. Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Through faith in the promise of God he was blessed; and it is only in the same way that others obtain this privilege. Thus the Gospel, in its essential germ, is older than the law though the full development of the former is subsequent to the latter. Galatians Chapter 3 begins with Paul describing his personal argument about how they were justified by faith. of God--"ratified by God" ( Galatians 3:15 ). One single faultless grain of human nature was found by God Himself, the source of a new and imperishable seed: "the seed" ( Psalms 22:30 ) who receive from Him a new nature and name ( Genesis 3:15 , Isaiah 53:10 Isaiah 53:11 , John 12:24 ). 26. children--Greek, "sons." This verse is parenthetical. The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. Show me more …. 8. Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. Galatians 3. God would bring man into immediate communion with Him, and not have man separated from Him by a mediator that keeps back from access, as Moses and the legal priesthood did ( Exodus 19:12 Exodus 19:13 Exodus 19:17 Exodus 19:21-24 , Hebrews 12:19-24 ). Highlighted parts are key quotes that may have been used on the radio shows. Had it not there for centuries rung in the ear, and fastened on the conscience, the joyful sound, "grace for grace," would not have been the watchword of the New Testament. (Galatians 3:13.) Chapter. REPROOF OF THE GALATIANS FOR ABANDONING FAITH FOR LEGALISM. Let Christ be always before our eyes, as a sure argument for the defence of faith, against dependence on human righteousness. It was to Christ in him, as in his grandfather Abraham, and his father Isaac, not to him or them as persons, the promise was spoken. (Galatians 3:28) ... (Galatians 3:28-29) Show answer 10. you--emphatical. Males alone had in their body circumcision, the sign of the covenant (contrast baptism applied to male and female alike); they alone were capable of being kings and priests, whereas all of either sex are now "kings and priests unto God" ( Revelation 1:6 ); they had prior right to inheritances. . . being made--Greek, "having become." Galatians 3 NIV - Faith or Works of the Law - You foolish - Bible Gateway. In Him the lineal descent from David becomes extinct. Thus delivered up to the judicial law, we see how awful is the doom we deserve: thus the law at last leads us to Christ, with whom we find righteousness and peace. The putting on of Christ according to the gospel, consists not in outward imitation, but in a new birth, an entire change. c. Before w… Compiled by Eric Johnson. I conclude, therefore, that it is up to Christ to overcome my sins, and not up to the Law, or my own efforts. And our special care must be for heaven; the things of this life are but trifles. (19-25) Under the gospel state true believers are all one in Christ. The answer to the question in Galatians 3:5 is here taken for granted, It was by the hearing of faith: following this up, he says, "Even as Abraham believed," &c. ( Genesis 15:4-6 Romans 4:3 ). Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law; being made sin, or a sin-offering, for us, he was made a curse for us; not separated from God, but laid for a time under the Divine punishment. under sin--( Romans 3:9 Romans 3:19 , 11:32 ). Therefore our care must be to do the duties that belong to us, and all other cares we must cast upon God. . And thus it was, as the word properly signifies, a servant, to lead to Christ, as children are led to school by servants who have the care of them, that they might be more fully taught by Him the true way of justification and salvation, which is only by faith in Christ. 3. This matters deeply to him. The Greek supports English Version. Matthew Henry's Commentary – Galatians . 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” # 3:10 Deut. Whereas the law brings in a mediator, a third party ( Galatians 3:19 Galatians 3:20 ), God makes His covenant of promise with the one seed, Christ ( Genesis 17:7 ), and embraces others only as they are identified with, and represented by, Christ. II. It is now, and at all times, God's one way of justification. Thus he arrives at the same truth which he set out with ( Galatians 3:7 ). "So that the law hath been (that is, hath turned out to be) our schoolmaster (or "tutor," literally, "pedagogue": this term, among the Greeks, meant a faithful servant entrusted with the care of the boy from childhood to puberty, to keep him from evil, physical and moral, and accompany him to his amusements and studies) to guide us unto Christ," with whom we are no longer "shut up" in bondage, but are freemen. 4. But no outward forms or profession can secure these blessings; for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Proud member For the "promise" was substantially the Gospel by anticipation. 24. Galatians 2: Galatians: Galatians 4. Click here Sign in. I hope better things of you, for I trust you will return from legalism to grace; if so, as I confidently expect, you will not have "suffered so many things in vain" [ESTIUS]. I prefer understanding it as a mitigation of the preceding words. Galatians 3:10 , "As many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse," refers plainly, not to the Jews only, but to all, even Gentiles (as the Galatians), who seek justification by the law. (Read Galatians 3:6-14) The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. 29. and heirs--The oldest manuscripts omit "and." Let us then study the object, nature, and effects of Abraham's faith; for who can in any other way escape the curse of the holy law? The law, on the other hand, contemplates the Jews and Gentiles as distinct seeds. But as He promises the blessing in the faithful use of the means, the Church has rightly presumed, in charity, that such is the case, nothing appearing to the contrary. THE LOWER: THE HIGHER: 1-2. “For ye are all one in Christ Jesus”: All those who are one with Jesus Christ are one with one another. What did Paul say about racial, class, and gender barriers with regard to the congregations of Christ? Therefore he says, "the Scripture," not the "Law." The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. The Galatians reproved for departing from the great doctrine of justification alone, through faith in Christ. The unity of God involves the unity of the people of God, and also His dealing directly without intervention of a mediator. These miracles do not prove grace to be in the heart ( mark 9:38 mark 9:39 ). "Anathema" means "set apart to God," to His glory, but to the person's own destruction. The curse is against all sinners, therefore against all men; for all have sinned, and are become guilty before God: and if, as transgressors of the law, we are under its curse, it must be vain to look for justification by it. 11. by the law--Greek, "IN the law." All people do … It is observable, Paul quotes Scripture to the Jews who were conversant with it, as in Epistle to the Hebrews, as said or spoken; but to the Gentiles, as written. a curse for us--Having become what we were, in our behalf, "a curse," that we might cease to be a curse. And the terrors of the law are often used by the convincing Spirit, to show the sinner his need of Christ, to bring him to rely on his sufferings and merits, that he may be justified by faith. He does not, as in the case of "the covenant," add "enacted by God" ( John 1:17 ). The Scripture is said to foresee, because the Holy Spirit that indited the Scripture did foresee. Hung between heaven and earth as though unworthy of either! Beautifully contrasted with "the liberty wherewith Christ makes free," which follows, Galatians 3:7 Galatians 3:9 Galatians 3:25 Galatians 3:26 , 5:1 , Isaiah 61:1 . The dispensation of the law, which engenders bondage, was beginning to draw on from the time of his entrance into Egypt, the land of bondage. 12. doeth--Many depended on the law although they did not keep it; but without doing, saith Paul, it is of no use to them ( Romans 2:13 Romans 2:17 Romans 2:23 , 10:5 ). The promise was given by God himself; the law was given by the ministry of angels, and the hand of a mediator, even Moses. 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. "Children" (literally, infants) need such tutoring ( Galatians 4:3 ). by angels--as the instrumental enactors of the law [ALFORD] God delegated the law to angels as something rather alien to Him and severe ( Acts 7:53 , Hebrews 2:2 Hebrews 2:3 ; compare Deuteronomy 33:2 , "He came with ten thousands of saints," that is, angels, Psalms 68:17 ). The covenant of promise was not "spoken" (so Greek for "made") to Abraham alone, but "to Abraham and his seed"; to the latter especially; and this means Christ (and that which is inseparable from Him, the literal Israel, and the spiritual, His body, the Church). The moral law shows us what we ought to do, and so we learn our inability to do it. 25. but a man's covenant--whose purpose it is far less important to maintain. in the hand of a mediator--namely, Moses. 9. they--and they alone. 18. the inheritance--all the blessings to be inherited by Abraham's literal and spiritual children, according to the promise made to him and to his Seed, Christ, justification and glorification ( Galatians 4:7 , Romans 8:17 , 1 Corinthians 6:9 ). Verse 10 In this verse, Paul was referring to the false teachers. Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Galatians 3:23-29 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Paul, apostle to the Gentiles, established churches in Galatia composed primarily of Gentiles who received the Gospel eagerly (4:14-15). Who has bewitched you? A mediator, as the very term signifies, is a friend that comes between two parties, and is not to act merely with and for one of them. The curse of its non-fulfilment affects the Gentiles through the Jews; for the law represents that righteousness which God requires of all, and which, since the Jews failed to fulfil, the Gentiles are equally unable to fulfil. Galatians 3:28 Galatians 3:29 prove this, "Ye are all ONE in Christ Jesus" (Jesus is added here as the person is indicated). the law which was--Greek, "which came into existence four hundred thirty years after" ( Exodus 12:40 Exodus 12:41 ). First, Paul stresses the gullibility of the Galatians. So to those who follow Abraham, the father of the faithful, the blessing, that is, justification, comes purely by faith in Him who is the subject of the promise. Also the contrast is between "live by faith" (namely, as the ground and source of his justification), and "live in them," namely, in his doings or works ( Galatians 3:12 ), as the conditional element wherein he is justified. [CALVIN]. The means of salvation and the means of sanctification is a Person, not a system of works, but a Person, and that Person is the Lord Jesus Christ. The law leads us to Christ, and there its office ceases. 1. the promise--the inheritance promised ( Galatians 3:18 ). Have ye suffered so many things--namely, persecution from Jews and from unbelieving fellow countrymen, incited by the Jews, at the time of your conversion. GATAKER defines a Christian, "One who has put on Christ." 15. The great design of the law was, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to those that believe; that, being convinced of their guilt, and the insufficiency of the law to effect a righteousness for them, they might be persuaded to believe on Christ, and so obtain the benefit of the promise. bond nor free--Christ alike belongs to both by faith; whence he puts "bond" before "free." Assuredly among the latter. He reserved "the promise" to Himself and dispensed it according to His own goodness. be blessed--an act of grace, not something earned by works. Compare Isaiah 24:22 , "As prisoners gathered in the pit and shut up in the prison." Where justification is, there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith, the latter must also. Then the law, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, becomes his loved rule of duty, and his standard for daily self-examination. The Israelites, though chosen to be God's peculiar people, were sinners as well as others. 6. It asks whether or not we are true followers of Christ and if … Christ is to you the toga virilis (the Roman garment of the full-grown man, assumed when ceasing to be a child) [BENGEL]. Confirmation of Galatians 3:9 . II. But they cannot make people good. "And if ye be Christ's, ye are Abraham's SEED, heirs according to the promise.". The curse had to be removed from off the heathen, too, as well as the Jews, in order that the blessing, through Abraham, might flow to them. Before … The Jews' law represents the universal law which condemned the Gentiles, though with less clear consciousness on their part ( Romans 2:1-29 ). The city of God in heaven, is the portion or child's part. Those only are just or righteous who are freed from death and wrath, and restored into a state of life in the favour of God; and it is only through faith that persons become righteous. Having begun your Christianity in the Spirit, that is, in the divine life that proceeds from faith, are ye seeking after something higher still (the perfecting of your Christianity) in the sensuous and the earthly, which cannot possibly elevate the inner life of the Spirit, namely, outward ceremonies? His spiritual seed derive their birth from the travail of His soul, being born again of His word, which is the incorruptible seed ( John 1:12 , Romans 9:8 , 1 Peter 1:23 ). Have you taken leave of your senses? Compare Romans 2:28 , Philippians 3:3 , Hebrews 9:10 . By this we learn the difference between the promises of the law and those of the gospel. The same phrase is in the Greek of Romans 3:26 . Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." might be given--The emphasis is on "given": that it might be a free gift; not something earned by the works of the law ( Romans 6:23 ). till the seed--during the period up to the time when the seed came. concluded--"shut up," under condemnation, as in a prison. 13. The ransom price He paid was His own precious blood ( 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 ; compare Matthew 20:28 , Acts 20:28 , 1 Corinthians 6:20 , 7:23 , 1 Timothy 2:6 , 2 Peter 2:1 , Revelation 5:9 ). (1-5) This doctrine established from the example of Abraham. Therefore "in," or "by the law, no man is justified before God" (whatever the case may be before men, Romans 4:2 )--not even if he could, which he cannot, keep the law, because the Scripture element and conditional mean of justification is faith. 1 You crazy Galatians! God's providence ordered it so that to fulfil the prophecy of the curse and other prophecies, Jesus should be crucified, and so hang on the tree, though that death was not a Jewish mode of execution. In Galatians 3, Paul makes an intricate exegetical argument about the priority of God’s promise to Abraham and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and about the provisional function of the law in relation to God’s promise. What does Galatians chapter 3 mean? preached before the gospel--"announced beforehand the Gospel." Several things made the folly of the Galatian Christians worse. He believed that they were "running well" (5:7). The apostle proves the doctrine he had blamed the Galatians for rejecting; namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. © 2020 Christianity.com. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. no man disannulleth--"none setteth aside," not even the author himself, much less any second party. But under the law the male sex had great privileges. Christ alone can, by baptizing with His Spirit, make the inward grace correspond to the outward sign. life--The law, as an externally prescribed rule, can never internally impart spiritual life to men naturally dead in sin, and change the disposition. "Was it by the works of the law that ye received the Spirit (manifested by outward miracles, Galatians 3:5 , 16:17 , Hebrews 2:4 ; and by spiritual graces, Galatians 3:14 , Galatians 4:5 Galatians 4:6 , Ephesians 1:13 ), or by the hearing of faith?" 3 Are you so foolish? Faith or Works of the Law - You foolish Galatians! if it be confirmed--when once it hath been ratified. Having begun in the Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit ruling your spiritual life as its "essence and active principle" [ELLICOTT], in contrast to "the flesh," the element in which the law works [ALFORD]. He who makes believers to be heirs, will provide for them. He speaks of these miracles as a matter of unquestioned notoriety among those addressed; an undesigned proof of their genuineness (compare 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ). Christians should not be separate from each other. Chapter 3 The apostle inquires how they could be so foolish as torenounce the Gospel of Christ and turn back to the law, afterhaving heard, received, and suffered so much for the Gospel, 1-5. The Galatian Christians had believed in Jesus and began enjoying their freedom in Christ. Resources » Matthew Henry's Commentary » Galatians. Galatians 3:29, KJV: "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Meanwhile the law, by outwardly checking the sinful propensity which was constantly giving fresh proof of its refractoriness--as thus the consciousness of the power of the sinful principle became more vivid, and hence the sense of need both of forgiveness of sin and freedom from its bondage was awakened--the law became a "schoolmaster to guide us unto Christ" [NEANDER]. Read and study Galatians 3 with the Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Hi, Sign out. 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