Galatians 3:24 Why the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. I. AS GIVING PRECEPTS IN WHICH PRINCIPLES ARE INVOLVED BUT NOT EXPRESSLY TAUGHT. Every wise teacher begins so, and the first duty of the pupil is a blind obedience. At length when the pupil discovers the principle he may dispense with the rule or not, as he pleases. II. AS PRESCRIBING INADEQUATE DUTIES — a part instead of the whole, which was to develop into the whole. 1. The institution of temple worship, by means of which the Jews were to be led into the truth that God is here, and therefore to be worshipped. But God is everywhere, and His true temples infinite space and the soul of man. 2. The institution of the Sabbath. But just as a right of way is often secured to the proprietor by shutting up a road one day in the year, not to declare it his only on that day, or more on that day than others, but simply to vindicate his right in it for every day; so did God shut up one-seventh part of time, that it might be understood that all belonged to Him. 3. The third commandment, which is not simply a prohibition of blasphemy, but was equivalent to "thou shalt not forswear thyself, but perform thy oaths."Learn: 1. That revelation is education. What education is for the individual, revelation is for the race. 2. That revelation is progressive. 3. That the training of character in God's revelation has always preceded illumination of the intellect. (F. W. Robertson, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.WEB: So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. |
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