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The Unbreakable Promise
While famously difficult, commentators explain this verse contrasts the Law and the Promise. The Law required a "mediator" (Moses), making it a two-sided, conditional contract between God and Israel. But the promise to Abraham came from God alone ("God is one"). As a one-sided, unconditional gift, it cannot be broken by human failure and is therefore superior to the Law for salvation.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:20
18th Century
Theologian
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, etc. This verse has given great perplexity to commentators. "There is, unquestionably," says Bloo…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:20
Is not a mediator of one (ενος ουκ εστιν). That is, a middleman comes in between two. The law is in the nature of a contract betwe…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:20
19th Century
Bishop
The mention of the word “mediator” implies a contract to which there are at least two parties. But where there is a contract, there must also be co…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:17–20
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:20
This verse is probably the most obscure verse in Galatians, if not in the entire NT. The difficulty lies in the abrupt, aphoristic character of the…
John Calvin
On Galatians 3:20
16th Century
Theologian
When we are told that the law has no influence in obtaining justification, various suggestions immediately arise: that it must be either useless, o…
John Gill
On Galatians 3:20
17th Century
Pastor
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one
A mediator supposes two parties he stands between, and these at a distance f…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 3:19–22
17th Century
Minister
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…