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An Unavoidable Choice
Commentators unanimously agree that Paul presents a stark, mutually exclusive choice: either righteousness comes from obeying the law, or it comes through faith in Christ's death. As multiple scholars note, if the law could make us righteous, then Christ's death was entirely unnecessary and 'in vain.' One cannot have it both ways.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 2:21
18th Century
Theologian
I do not frustrate the grace of God. The word rendered "frustrate," atheto, means, properly, to displace, abrogate, or abolish; t…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 2:21
I do not make void the grace of God (ουκ αθετω την χαριν του θεου). Common word in LXX and Polybius and on, to make ineffective (α…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 2:21
19th Century
Bishop
By attaching himself devotedly to Christ, the Christian escapes the charge of refusing and thwarting the free gift of justification which God has o…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 2:21
19th Century
Preacher
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
If a man can be saved by hi…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 2:21
This last sentence of ch. 2 is introduced abruptly and from a new point of view. In the preceding verses Paul has answered the objections of his cr…
John Calvin
On Galatians 2:21
16th Century
Theologian
I do not reject. There is great emphasis in this expression; for how dreadful is the ingratitude manifested in despising the grace of God,…
John Gill
On Galatians 2:21
17th Century
Pastor
I do not frustrate the grace of God
Or "cast it away", as the Vulgate Latin version reads it; or "deny it", as the S…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 2:20–21
17th Century
Minister
Here, in his own person, the apostle describes the spiritual or hidden life of a believer. The old man is crucified ([Reference Romans 6:6…