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What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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The Law as a Mirror
Commentators explain that the law was not given to provide salvation, but to reveal sin. Its purpose was to define transgression, show humanity its guilt, and demonstrate our inability to achieve righteousness on our own. Like a mirror, it exposes the problem but cannot fix it, thereby pointing us to our need for the Savior, Jesus Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wherefore then serveth the law? This is obviously an objection which might be urged to the reasoning which the apostle had pursued. It was…
What then is the law? (τ ουν ο νομοσ?). Or, why then the law? A pertinent question if the Abrahamic promise antedates it and holds…
19th Century
Anglican
Wherefore then serveth the law?—Literally, What then is the Law? What is its object or function? If it did not a…
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Baptist
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always…
To the question “What, then, was the purpose of the law?” Paul provides as his first answer that the law was added “because of transgressions” (GK …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore why then serves the law ? &c.] If this be the case, might an objector say, why was the law given? what end…
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If that promise was enough for salvation, what purpose, then, did the law serve? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's special people, were sin…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing by the authority of Scripture and by a human custom that the Law was unable to make a person just, the Apostle now raises and solves …
