 | 1831 - 412 pages
...comprehended in the blessing of believing Abraham, as hinted at in the context, is the inheritance. " For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.*' The argument of the apostle is founded on the essential difference between a conditional law of works,... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...here. The lata could not disannul the covenant made with Abraham, nor make the promise of no effect. 19 Wherefore then serveth. the law ? It was added because...was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one ; but God is one. Here an objection is moved : Some might... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...the law by the disposition of angels, arid have not kept it, Acts 7:53. And wherefore then eervcth he we Gal. 3:19. And if the word spoke by angels was steadfast," &c. Heb. 2:2. For my part it hath puzzled... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1832 - 168 pages
...hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of God of no effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise." — I have never, I confess, been able to fancy to myself anything plainer than this ; and though much... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1832 - 552 pages
...knowledge after the image of him that created him. SERMON X. Design of the Jewish Law. GALATIANS iii. 19. Wherefore then serveth the Law ? It was added, because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made. SERMON XI. Fulfilment of the Jewish Law. MATTHEW v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be... | |
 | 1833 - 360 pages
...was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Why then was the law ? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come,to whom... | |
 | 1833 - 804 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise." And because it might have occurred to the hearer's thoughts to ask, for what purpose the law had been... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...it is no more of promise : but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then senxth the law I It was added because of transgressions, till the seed...was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one : but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises... | |
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And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more... 
