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For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
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Don't Rebuild What Christ Tore Down
Paul argues that once a believer has embraced justification by faith in Christ, the old system of the Law has been 'destroyed' as a means of salvation. Commentators explain that trying to 'rebuild' it by re-imposing its rules and ceremonies is a grave error. This spiritual U-turn makes one a 'transgressor' against God's new covenant of grace.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For if I build again the things which I destroyed. Paul here uses the first person; but he evidently intends it as a general proposition, …
A transgressor (παραβατην). Peter, by his shifts had contradicted himself helplessly as Paul shows by this condition. When he live…
19th Century
Anglican
But Christ is not a minister of sin. The thought is not to be tolerated. For, on the contrary, the sin is seen, not in leaving the Law for Christ, …
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Baptist
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live un…
The interpretation of this verse is not difficult in the light of the interpretation of v.17 given above. The legalizers had accused Paul of encour…
16th Century
Protestant
For if I build again. The reply consists of two parts. This is the first part, and informs us that the supposition now made is at variance…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For if I build again the things which I destroyed Which must be understood not of good things, for formerly he destr…
Paul, having thus shown he was not inferior to any apostle, not even to Peter himself, speaks of the great foundational doctrine of the gospel. Why…
13th Century
Catholic
After proving from the apostles’ manner of life that the works of the Law should not be observed, the Apostle raises a question to the contrary. In…
