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Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don`t you listen to the law?
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An Ironic Challenge
Paul directly challenges those wanting to follow the Mosaic Law. Commentators note the irony: 'You who desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?' He is about to use a story from their own revered scriptures (the books of Moses) to prove that their desire for legalism is misguided and leads to bondage, not freedom.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Tell me, etc. To fully show the nature and effect of the law, Paul here introduces an illustration from an important fact in Jewish histor…
That desire to be under the law (ο υπο νομον θελοντες εινα). "Under law" (no article), as in 3:23; 4:4, legalistic system. Paul vi…
19th Century
Anglican
You that desire to be under the law.—A direct appeal to those who were inclined to give way to the Judaizing party.
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Baptist
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail …
Paul has already appealed to statements of the law to show that the law brings a curse to those who desire to be under it (3:10–14). But that was b…
16th Century
Protestant
Tell me. Having given exhortations adapted to touch the feelings, he follows up his former doctrine by an illustration of great beauty. Vi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law Not merely to obey it, as holy, just, and good, from a principle of lov…
The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. T…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle showed the preeminence of grace using a human example; here, he proves it on the authority of Scripture.
First, he p…
