Vincent Word Studies - Galatians 3:28 - 3:28

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Vincent Word Studies - Galatians 3:28 - 3:28


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With this putting on of Christ, the distinctions of your ordinary social relations - of nation, condition, sex - vanish. Comp. Rom 10:12; 1Co 12:13; Col 3:11.

There is (ἔνι)

Only in Paul (1Co 6:5; Col 3:11) and Jam 1:17. Ἔνι is the abbreviation of ἔνεστι there is in or among.

Male or female (ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ)

Comp. Mat 19:4. He said “Jew nor Greek”; “bond nor free.” Here he says “male and (καὶ) female”; perhaps because political and social distinctions are alterable, while the distinction of sex is unalterable, though absorbed in the new relation to Christ. Yet see Col 3:11, where we find, “not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision.”

Ye are all one

One moral personality. The individual differences are merged in the higher unity into which all are raised by their common life in Christ. This is the one new man, Eph 2:15.