King James Version · Under Rome
Galatians 3
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O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not the truth, before whose eyes hath been evidently set forth, among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye by the , or by the hearing of ? Are ye so foolish? having begun in , are ye now made perfect by ? Have ye suffered so many things in ? if it be yet in . He therefore that ministereth to you , and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the , or by the hearing of ? Even as , and it was accounted to him for . Know ye therefore that they which are of , the same are the children of . And the , foreseeing that would the heathen through , preached before unto , saying, In thee shall all nations be . So then they which be of are with . For as many as are of the are under the : for , is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of to do them. But that no man is by in the sight of , it is evident: for, The shall live by . And is not of : but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath us from the of , being made for us: for , is every one that hangeth : That the of might come on the through ; that we might receive the promise of through . Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s , yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. Now to and were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy , which is Christ. And this I say, that , that was confirmed before of in Christ, , which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the be of , it is no more of promise: but gave it to by promise. Wherefore then serveth ? It was added because of , till the should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but is one. Is then against the promises of ? forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily should have been by . But the hath concluded all under , that the promise by of might be given to them that . But before came, we were kept , shut up unto the which should afterwards be . Wherefore was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be by . But after that is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of by in Christ . For as many of you as have been into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither nor , there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ . And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye ’s , and according to the promise.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
Christians read this chapter differently
- What roles may women hold in the church? · Galatians 3:28
- Which of God's laws still bind a Christian? · Galatians 3:23-25
Every view at its strongest, with who holds it and what it has to answer for.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.