Galatians 3:20

1 Timothy 2:5; Acts 12:20; Deuteronomy 6:4; Galatians 3:17; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 17:2; Job 9:33; Romans 3:29

Related Commentaries of Galatians 3:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one ... - This verse has given great perplexity to commentators. “There is, unquestionably,” says Bloomfield,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, (24) but God is one. (24) A taking away of an objection, lest any man might say that sometimes by consent...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The promise having once been given, no subsequent enactment like the Law can interfere with it. (Similarly Heb. emphasizes the priority in time of Me...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. Now, a mediator is not a mediator of one. Some are disposed to philosophize on this expression, and would make Paul’s meaning to be, tha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. A mediator is not a mediator of one - As a mediator, μεσιτης, signifies a middle person, t...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now a mediator, &c.— To understand this verse, we must carry in our minds what St. Paul is here doing; and from Galatians 3:17 it is manifest...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 'Now a mediator [in the essential idea: ho ( G3588 ) mesitees ( G3316 ): th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Justification is by Faith, not Works 1-14. The Apostle upbraids the Galatians with their speedy change from faith to legal observances, reminding...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

There is no place for a mediator where there is but one party to a transaction. Now, in issuing His promise to Abraham, God stands forth independent...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If such was not the function of the Law — if it had no power to modify the promise — what was its true function? It was a sort of measure of police...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The mention of the word “mediator” implies a contract to which there are at least two parties. But where there is a contract there must be also condi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 14 THE DESIGN OF THE LAW. Galatians 3:19-24 "WHAT then is the law?" So the Jew might well exclaim. Paul has been doing nothing but dis...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Law Leads to Christ Galatians 3:20-29 The Mosaic law was not designed to be the final code of the religious life, but to prepare the soil o...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the second division of the epistle, in which Paul deals with the doctrine of liberty. He begins with the exclamation, "O foolish Galatian...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. (1...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE ONE MEDIATOR ‘How a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.’ Galatians 3:20 This short sentence is so difficult in its concis...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one ,.... A mediator supposes two parties he stands between, and these at a distance from, or disagreeing with e...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Ver. 20. Is not a mediator of one ] q.d. God and men were at odds, else what use of...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one There must be two parties, or there can be no place or use for a mediator: but God, who made the free promi...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FAITH IS THE ONE PRINCIPLE OF BLESSING (vs.1-9) "0 foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" (v.1). Little wonder, as Paul considers the princip...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Design of the Law; The True Children of Abraham. A. D. 56....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is a text acknowledged by all interpreters to be very obscure; not so much as considered in itself, (for all know, that a mediator speaks one th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘What then is the Law? It was added because of transgressions until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made, ordained through angels b...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What Then Was the Purpose of the Law? ( Galatians 3:19-24 ). He now raises the question as to what the purpose of the Law is.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 3:19 . Wherefore then serveth the law? —As it is of no avail for justification, is it either useless or...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Paul, writing, to those changeable Galatians, who had so soon deserted the faith, says to them in this chapter Galatians 3:1 . O foolish Galatians...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 3:1 . O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, Paul writes as if they had come under some kind of witchcraft, and been deluded by...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 3:1-2 . O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidentl...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

3:1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Galatians 3:1 . Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you: εβασκανε, who hath fascinated, beguiled, or seduced you by subtlety and cunning, and...
The Biblical Illustrator

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. I. The key to the apostle’s argument--“One.” 1 . ( Galatians 3:16 ) One is the seed of...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians (ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται). In thus apostrophizing them, the apostle brands their present beh...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proofs for the Liberty of a Christian from the Nature and Meaning of the Law. The secondary office of the Law:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Cross and Its Objectives Galatians 3:10-29 ; Galatians 4:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Now the mediator is not a mediator of one — There must be two parties, or there can be no mediator between them; but God who made the free promise...

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

Related Commentaries of Galatians 3:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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