Gálatas 3
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Gálatas 3:1
This indicates their previous zeal for piety and manifests the fatherly affection of the apostle. He grieves over them for their loss of wealth accumulated. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.1
Gálatas 3:9
Paul has thus eulogized faith and shown what fruits it has from the gracious gifts of the Spirit. He also has shown that it is older than the law from the witness of the law itself—for the Old Testament describes the events concerning Abraham. Finally, he sets the law alongside faith, showing how it differs. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.7-9
Gálatas 3:16
The promise made to Abraham is called a testament in the ancient Scripture and so cannot suffer addition, subtraction or dissolution through the imposition of the Mosaic law, which was given a very long time after Abraham. Now the promise was that the God of all would bless the nations through the offspring of Abraham. And this offspring is Christ the Lord, since the promise found its destination in him through whom the nations received a blessing. But all the others, such as Moses, Samuel, Elijah and in a word all who traced their descent from Israel, were called his offspring according to nature, but [this genetic fact] is not what brought the fount of blessings to the nations.… The fact that those men too trace their race to Abraham does not mean that they are rightly called his offspring, but this man has that appellation in the proper sense, as being the only One through whom, according to the promise, God has bestowed blessing on the nations. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.16-17
Gálatas 3:19
This question should be read as a personification. "What you want to know," he says, "is why the law was imposed. I shall tell you.… It was imposed for the tutelage of the race from which that offspring was going to sprout according to the flesh." — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.19
Gálatas 3:19
It was imposed through the ministry of angels, and Moses assisted in this imposition. For Moses is the one that is called an intermediary. … For the God of all set Michael over them, as taught by the blessed Daniel. And to the great Moses he promised to send with him an angel to the people. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.19
Gálatas 3:20
For [Moses] mediated between God and the people. But God is the one who both gave the promise to Abraham and imposed the law, and he has shown us the destination of the promise. For it was not one God who dispensed the former and another who dispensed the latter. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.20
Gálatas 3:24
Now it was necessary that the law be given, as it fulfilled our need of a custodian. And it freed us from our previous impiety, taught us knowledge of God and then brought us to Christ the Lord as though to some wise teacher, so that we might be instructed by him in perfect learning and acquire the righteousness that is through faith. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.24
Gálatas 3:26
He has illustrated the perfection of believers. For what is more perfect than to be called sons of God? — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.26