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Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Against the promises (κατα των επαγγελιων). A pertinent question again. Far from it (μη γενοιτο).
Which could make …
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
The second apparent conclusion the legalizers might take from Paul’s doctrine of justification is that the law becomes evil because it opposes grac…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Is the law then against the promises of God ? &c.] If the law was added because of transgressions, and curses for th…
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
Here, the Apostle raises another question: whether the Law is contrary to grace. First, he poses the question, asking, Was the law then against…
