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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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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:13
18th Century
Theologian
Christ has redeemed us. The word used here, exhgorasen, is not that which is usually employed in the New Testament to denote rede…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:13
Redeemed us (ημας εξηγορασεν). First aorist active of the compound verb εξαγοραζω (Polybius, Plutarch, Diodorus), to buy from, to …
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:13
19th Century
Bishop
Christ has redeemed us.—Better, Christ redeemed us. The opening of this verse without any connecting particle le…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:13–15
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:13
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…
John Calvin
On Galatians 3:13
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Galatians 3:13
17th Century
Pastor
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 …
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 3:6–14
17th Century
Minister
The apostle proves the doctrine he had criticized the Galatians for rejecting: namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law.…