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The Law's Paradox
Commentators explain the puzzling phrase "through the law I died to the law" by showing how the law itself leads to its own end as a path to salvation. By revealing God's perfect standard and our inability to meet it, the law "kills" our reliance on self-effort. It exposes our sin and condemnation, forcing us to look away from our own works and toward God's grace in Christ for justification.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 2:19
18th Century
Theologian
For I through the law. On this passage, commentators are not at all agreed. It is agreed that in the phrase "am dead to the law,"…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 2:19
I through the law died to the law (εγω δια νομου νομω απεθανον). Paradoxical, but true. See Rom 7:4,6 for picture of how the law w…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 2:19
19th Century
Bishop
In the last verse, the Apostle had been presenting a hypothetical case, but by a not unnatural process of thought, he gradually uses the “I” more e…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 2:18–19
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 2:19
The “we” of v.17 (which included both Paul and Peter) has changed to the “I” of v.18. This personal form of expression continues as Paul begins to …
John Calvin
On Galatians 2:19
16th Century
Theologian
For I through the law. Now follows the direct reply: we must not attribute to Christ the work that properly belongs to the law. It was not…
John Gill
On Galatians 2:19
17th Century
Pastor
For I through the law am dead to the law
The apostle further replies to the objection against the doctrine of justif…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 2:15–19
17th Century
Minister
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…