Thus we see that justification by faith is no new doctrine, but was taught in the church of … Week Six: 3:13-27 Paul Contrasts Abraham"S Promise To The Law. The quotation is Deuteronomy 21:23. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"--. Galatians 3:13 Translation & Meaning. The words ὑπὸ θεοῦ are omitted in the quotation, and ἐπὶ ξύλου is added from the previous verse. i. p. 95, etc. The death of Christ involved a curse because the manner of it was by suspension from a cross. The literalism of the Jews would require, by the Septuagint translation, that all these were cursed; and the other rendering was adopted to avert such appalling consequences. an insult, to God.” So many Jewish authorities. Lightfoot says that the words ὑπὸ θεοῦ are “instinctively” omitted by Paul; but they are really implied in the citation-the criminal having broken God's law bore God's curse; and in their application to Christ, it is still God's law whose curse was borne by Him, though the ὑπὸ θεοῦ fades into the background, as it is not essential to form a result of the present argument. There is no further redemption being provided on a continuing basis, there is no cross on a continuing basis and there is no need for offering Christ on a continuing basis. Shalom, I humbly submit for review consideration testing and sharpening. 557). A curse for us - having become what we were, in our behalf [ huper (Greek #5228) heemoon (Greek #2257): Philem 13 sanctions also 'in our stead'], "a curse," that we might cease to be it. Sproul writes, “If God were to give us what we earn, what we deserve, we would perish from His wrath, but thanks be to God that He gives to us what was earned by His Son. The other: ‘Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree’ (Galatians 3:13). Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), Still later, this last rendering served against Christians, as it enabled the Jews to hold that the crucified Jesus was an insult to God. Sac. Written—Deuteronomy 21:23. ", "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance. The figure of a ransom, which this word conveys, is doubly appropriate in this connection. It is wonderful to have a soft, tender heart before God. A parenthetic justification from Deuteronomy 21:23 (Sept.) of the startling expression just used. here, also Galatians 1:4, Galatians 2:20 notes. ( D) Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Galatians 3:13-14. He wrote in the Greek language. The Law pronounced a blessing and a curse; but since it made no allowance for human infirmity, the blessing proved barren in result; while the curse, which invoked the just wrath of an offended God for the punishment of the guilty, proved, on the contrary, fruitful in condemnation. The religion of Christ differs from all other religions mainly in this, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, ἒτερος ἀνεύθυνος ἑλόμενος ἀποθανείν ὑπὲρ ἐκείνου, ὁ δὲ βλασφημήσας θεὸν καταλευσθεὶς κρεμάσθω δι, John Eadie's Commentary on Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philippians, χριστὸς ᾑμᾶς ἐξηγόρασεν ἐκ τῆς κατάρας τοῦ νόμου, ὅτι κεκατηραμένος ὑπὸ θεοῦ πᾶς κρεμάμενος ἐπὶ ξύλου, "Verse13thus represents Christ"s death as a vicarious bearing of the curse of the law which delivers his people from the same curse. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.—From Deuteronomy 21:23. 1 Samuel 31:10, 2 Samuel 21:10). This theory draws from the ‘love’ concept. BibliographyEadie, John. The proof that Christ became a curse for us was the fact that His executioners hung Him on a tree. Us.—In the first instance, “the Jews,” but not to be confined too strictly to them. The curse of the non-fulfillment of the law affects the Gentiles through the Jews; for the law represents that righteousness which God requires of all-which, since the Jews failed to fulfil, the Gentiles must equally fail. Matthew 20:28 (He ‘gave his life a ransom for many’); 1 Timothy 2:6; 1Cor. Judenthum, “on the slanderous names which the Jews give to Christ.” Eisenmenger did with a will this work, which is a curious, erudite, and ponderous indictment against the Jewish nation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author, except as provided by U.S.A. copyright laws. The Law expressly declared that that criminal who died upon the cross or gibbet was an object of the divine wrath. Under the Law this was the fate of criminals whom God had cursed. Paul significantly omits the words ‘of God’ which are in the Septuagint and in the Hebrew. John Eadie's Commentary on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians. Chapter 3 The apostle in this chapter, I. Reproves the Galatians for their folly, in suffering themselves to be drawn away from the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. The fact that this redemption is in an aorist tense means that it was done at a point in time, that it is no longer going on. It is no longer a fearful condemning finger, but a guide book to life (as it was originally meant to be). "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". It is not said that His death was the actual punishment of that guilt. p. 727, ed. 1974. Christ died as such a criminal, and so came under the curse. Galatians 3:13, NLT: "But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. "Commentary on Galatians 3:13". He voluntarily took the wrath of God directed toward us upon Himself; He became the object and bearer of God"s curse ( 2 Corinthians 5:21). Redeemed—The Greek word signifies to buy off; to redeem, as from slavery. (That is why later they referred to Jesus derisively as ‘the hanged one’). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/galatians-3.html. And because He died we can live, for the curse of the Law has been removed from us and has been borne by Himself. Trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of the only begotten and sinless Son of God is the one and only price that is acceptable by a righteous God, as payment for our sins. Our Saviour fulfilled the legal curse by hanging dead on the cross. 'Anathema' means 'set apart to God's glory,' but to the person's own destruction; "curse" [ Katara (Greek #2671)] is an execration. It is not the accumulated penalty for the whole mass of human disobedience, but rather an incidental defilement, contracted by an in-voluntary breach of a particular ceremonial precept. There is also his explanation of the answer he gave to those who were offended because his disciples, hungry, had plucked some ears: The son of man is also Lord of the Sabbath (Cf Mt 12,1-8). What argument did Paul make on the word 'seed'? Christ being made a curse speaks to the substitutionary aspect of the atonement, He was cursed for us - we need not suffer death as did Christ since He already suffered and paid the price. The abruptness of the sentence shows an holy indignation at those who reject so great a blessing. Hebrew thought tended to identify the man on whom a curse was laid with the curse, as it identified the sin-offering with the sin, calling it ἁμαρτία (Leviticus 4:21-25). So the very means of Christ's death showed it to be an accursed death. "Commentary on Galatians 3:13". γενόμενος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν κατάρα—“having become a curse for us,” γενόμενος having the stress upon it. The ransom-price was his own precious blood (1 Peter 1:18-19 : cf. He became a curse ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, for us. The idea is, indeed, distinctly expressed in this very passage; but it must be gathered from the context, not from the use of the preposition. It expressly distinguishes between the curse which fell upon Christ and the curse which was due to the sins of men, though the incurrence of the one led to the abrogation of the other. While ὑπέρ signifies primarily on behalf of, or for the good of, it may here bear in combination the meaning of “in room of,” as certainly in John 13:37-38, 2 Corinthians 5:20, in Philemon 1:13, and in Plato, ῾ωμολογήκαμεν· ἐγὼ ὑπὲρ σοῦ ἀποκρινοῦμαι, Gorgias, 515, D, Opera, vol. 2013. He went as the One Who represented us to die on our behalf and in our stead. Galatians 3:13. Hence the curse is of the universal law, and the us is all mankind. That curse lay on all mankind. 6 (§ 202), ὁ δὲ βλασφημήσας θεὸν καταλευσθεὶς κρεμάσθω διʼ ἡμέρας καὶ ἀτίμως καὶ ἀφανῶς θαπτέσθω. Deuteronomy 21:23 "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance. The Law brought a curse. The apostle gives a different view of the heathen world in Romans 2:14-15, and states a contrary doctrine-that they are “without law.” So far, indeed, as the Mosaic law is unnational, or so far as it is a proclamation of earlier moral law springing out of those essential and unchanging relations which creatures bear to God and to one another, it must bind all races. c. Before w… This is a sign of spiritual immaturity, even as a baby will stick anything into its mouth. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". vers. In Galatians 3, Paul makes an intricate exegetical argument about the priority of God’s promise to Abraham and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and about the provisional function of the law in relation to God’s promise. The Hebrew of the clause is להִיםתָּלוּי ø כִּיאּ קִלְלַת אַ-for he that is hanged is accursed of God; the Greek, ὅτι κεκατηραμένος ὑπὸ θεοῦ πᾶς κρεμάμενος ἐπὶ ξύλου. If He had not died they must have died. The preposition which means “instead” is found in Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". This is God's work and I don't want anyone to profit from it in a material way. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/scn/galatians-3.html. See note, 2 Corinthians 5:21. And all who have trusted in Christ as Saviour can say with certainty and eternally: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree'. [Note: Morris, p106.]. Jesus got what He did not deserve; we got what He did deserve—the righteousness that is by faith.” Since verses 23-29 bring this argument to its climax, it will be helpful to review briefly the groundwork Paul … Continue reading "Commentary on Galatians 3:23-29" The curse of Law is death and we are incapable of escaping its curse - and death is the birth-right of every man and every woman - but Christ paid the price in our stead. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/galatians-3.html. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/galatians-3.html. And this declaration was a continuous stumbling-block, as Jerome testifies, and as may be seen in Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos, § 10, Opera, vol. Meyer says that this does not lie in the preposition but in the circumstances of the case. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. ῞ινα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον ἐξαγοράσῃ —“In order that He might redeem those under the law.” See under Galatians 3:13. 7. But Christ has redeemed us. III. Galatians 3:10). Some do not like the idea of substitution but it is written plainly here (and in Mark 10:45). Galatians 3:13 13 Christ s redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, t “Cursed is everyone who is hanged u on a tree”— Read more Share Copy The rendering of the Peshito, of the Targum of Jonathan, and of the Greek translators Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, is a modification of this view. Galatians is Paul writing Romans mad. See further A. T. Robertson, Short Grammar, p. 124. ὅτι. A couple of verses in Deuteronomy picture this portion of Christ"s ministry to us on the cross. BibliographyDerickson, Stanley. Lehrb. To be crucified was clearly evidence that they had come under the curse of God. The one specifies the guilt, the other the punishment. "Commentary on Galatians 3:13". That law did not originally include the Gentiles under its sway,-it in fact severed Israel and non-Israel, Jew and Gentile. The passage refers to those criminals who after being stoned were hung up on a stake (probably on the form of a cross), but were not permitted to remain in this position over night, lest the holy land should be desecrated. A man so hanged was a curse, and was not on that account to remain exposed all night, because the land had been consecrated to God. The noun κατάρα is the abstract, and without the article points out that the curse which He became was full-not circumscribed or modified-wide as the curse of the law. Proof that κατάρα is true. A quotation is introduced as proof of the last statement by γέγραπται γάρ, “it has been” and it stands “written,” as in the Textus Receptus; but the ὅτι γέγραπται has in its favour A, B, C, D1, F, with the Vulgate and several of the Latin fathers. Many people in Galatia had become Christians.Some of these people were *Jews. As it is written.—The way in which the curse of the Law fell upon Christ was through His death. It offers reflection and commentary drawing upon the wealth of wisdom found in the Judeo-Christian tradition. And the price that Christ paid is sufficient. But some people have softer heads than hearts. § 96, Opera, vol. 1897-1910. redeemed. "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. This is in simple terms Paul"s Christian interpretation of Christ"s death on the cross. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". On the one hand He was our representative, going there for us, and on the other He was our substitute, taking our place. p. 305, ed. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. The us and the we are, therefore, properly those who in Galatians 3:23 are said to be ὑπὸ νόμον, and also in Galatians 4:5, and not heathen also (Pareus, Winer, Matthies, Baumgarten-Crusius). In the case of the scapegoat, the high priest was to lay his hands upon his head, and to “confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat;” and the goat was to “bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited” (Leviticus 16:21-22). "Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible ". IV. Galatians 3:13. They were a Celtic people who had migrated to that region from Gaul (modern France), in the third century B.C. For it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." 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