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Not Enemies, but Allies
Paul emphatically rejects the idea that God's Law is against His promises. Commentators explain that since both originate from God, they cannot be in conflict. To suggest they are opposed is, as John Calvin notes, to imply God contradicts Himself. The Law and the promise work together in God's single plan of salvation.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 3:21
18th Century
Theologian
Is the law then against the promises of God? Is the law of Moses to be regarded as opposed to the promises made to Abraham? Does this follow from a…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 3:21
Against the promises (κατα των επαγγελιων). A pertinent question again. Far from it (μη γενοιτο).
Which could make …
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 3:21
19th Century
Bishop
The promises.—Here, as in Galatians 3:16, the plural, because the promise to Abraham was several times repeated, and afterwards ra…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 3:19–21
19th Century
Preacher
And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law th…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 3:21
The second apparent conclusion the legalizers might take from Paul’s doctrine of justification is that the law becomes evil because it opposes grac…
John Calvin
On Galatians 3:21
16th Century
Theologian
Is the law then against the promises of God? The certainty and steadiness of the divine purpose being admitted, we are equally bound to co…
John Gill
On Galatians 3:21
17th Century
Pastor
Is the law then against the promises of God ?
&c.] If the law was added because of transgressions, and curses for th…
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…