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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
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Christ, Our Substitute
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse describes a great exchange. Christ 'redeemed' us, a term for buying someone out of slavery, by taking our place. We were under the law's curse for our sin, but Christ became a curse 'for us' (or 'over us,' as one scholar notes), absorbing the penalty we deserved. This act of substitution is the foundation of our freedom from condemnation.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Christ has redeemed us. The word used here, exhgorasen, is not that which is usually employed in the New Testament to denote rede…
Redeemed us (ημας εξηγορασεν). First aorist active of the compound verb εξαγοραζω (Polybius, Plutarch, Diodorus), to buy from, to …
19th Century
Anglican
Christ has redeemed us.—Better, Christ redeemed us. The opening of this verse without any connecting particle le…
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Baptist
You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised n…
If these principles are true and if they support the topic sentence of v.10, then the condition of humankind under law is obviously hopeless. If th…
16th Century
Protestant
Christ has redeemed us. The apostle had made all who are under the law subject to the curse, from which arose the great difficulty that th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law The Redeemer is Christ, the Son of God; who was appointed and called to this …
The apostle proves the doctrine he had criticized the Galatians for rejecting: namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law.…
13th Century
Catholic
Having explained the curse brought on by the Law, as well as the Law’s inability to deliver from sin, the Apostle now reveals Christ’s power to set…
