20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

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21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 But the Scripture hath concluded "all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us. See on 1 TIM. ii. 5.

DEUT. vi. 4: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. ROM. iii. 29, 30: Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

MAT. v. 17: Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. GAL. ii. 21.

1 Ver. 8.

m See on Roм. iii. 9, 19, 23.

" Roм. iv. 11, 12, 16: And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all.

PLOMAT. v. 17: The words under ver. 21. Rom. x. 4: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. COL. ii. 17: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. HEB. ix. 9, 10: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood

to bring us unto Christ, P that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,12 there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all "one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. P See on ACTS, xiii. 39.

See on ROM. viii. 14-16.

' ROM. vi. 3: Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

S See on ROM. xiii. 14.

See on Acтs, x. 35.

"JOHN, x. 16: And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. do. xvii. 20, 21: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. EPH. ii. 14-16: He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. do. iv. 4, 15: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

▾ Ver. 9. See on Roм. ix. 7.

GAL. iv. 7, 28: Rom. viii. 17: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we

CHAP. IV.

1 We were under the law till Christ came, as the heir is under his guardian till he be of age: 5 but Christ freed us from the law: 7 therefore we are servants no longer to it: 14 he remembereth their good will to him, and his to them, 22 and showeth that we are the sons of Abraham by the freewoman.

NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements' of the world:

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4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of 2 a woman, made under the law,

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suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. EPH. iii. 6 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel.

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a GAL. iii. 23: do. v. 1: CoL. ii. 8, 20: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy-after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world. HEB. ix. 10: Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

GEN. xlix. 10: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. See on MARK, i. 15.

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CHEB. ii. 14: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. See on JOHN, i. 14.

GEN. iii. 15: I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. ISA. vii. 14: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Mic. v. 3: Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth. MAT. i. 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel. LUKE, i.

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth h the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and 1if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

8 Howbeit then, k when ye knew not God, 'ye

31: And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. do. ii. 7: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

e MAT. v. 17: Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. LUKE, ii. 27: And he came by the Spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law.

f GAL. iii. 13: MAT. xx. 28: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. EPH. i. 7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. TIT. ii. 14: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. HEB. ix. 12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 1 PET. i. 18, 19: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

8 See on ROM. viii. 15.

h ROM. v. 5: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. See on ROM. viii. 15.

iRoм. viii. 16, 17: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. GAL. iii. 29.

* See on 1 COR. vi. 11. See on 1 COR. vi. 11.

did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather mare known of God, "how turn ye again1 to the weak and beggarly 5 elements," whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

10 P Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, "lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

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12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are 7 ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel unto you at the first.

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14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected ; but received me as an "angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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m See on 2 TIM. ii. 19.

" GAL. iii. 3: CoL. ii. 20: If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

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2 COR. ii. 5: If any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part that I may not overcharge you all.

See on 1 COR. ii. 3.

1GAL. i. 6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel.

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" GEN. xix. 1,2 : There came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house. 2 SAM. xix. 27: My lord the king is as an angel of God. ZEC. xii. 8: The house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. MAL. ii. 7: The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they