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Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, etc. This verse has given great perplexity to commentators. "There is, unquestionably," says Bloo…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
When we are told that the law has no influence in obtaining justification, various suggestions immediately arise: that it must be either useless, o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one A mediator supposes two parties he stands between, and these at a distance f…
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 …
