 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 ページ
...hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For i the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of Promise...Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law ? It v/a« added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise wai made; and... | |
 | Edward Fisher - 1830 - 432 ページ
...to the former, as subservient unto it; to turn their eyes towards the promise, or covenant of grace, God gave it to Abraham by promise. " Wherefore then...because of transgressions, till the seed should come," Gal 3: 18, 19. So it was unto the promise given to Abraham, that this subservient covenant was added;... | |
 | S. Lee - 1830 - 510 ページ
...eternal life to a sinless obedience, but to nothing short of that. And at the 18th verse, it is said, — "For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise." The inheritance of God's kingdom, and its blessings, therefore, are obtained by promise; not by the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 574 ページ
...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...of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise." Mr. Locke paraphrases it thus, "•This therefore, I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold - 1830 - 492 ページ
...preached,) we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed." " Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added, because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made." Thus you see, that what men make an objection, is a part of the divine plan; what they account foolishness,... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1831 - 316 ページ
...death, even so might grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherefore, then, serveth the law ? It was added because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made." Rom. v. 20, 21.' Gal. iii. 19. St. Paul says; "Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in... | |
 | 1831 - 412 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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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... 
