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Under a curse (hupo kataran). Picture of the curse hanging over them like a Damocles’ blade. Cf. Rom 3:9 “under sin” (huph' hamartian). The word for “curse” (katara) is an old one (kata, down, ara, imprecation), often in lxx, in N.T. only here and Gal 3:13; Jam 3:10; 2Pe 2:14. Paul quotes Deu 27:26, the close of the curses on Mt. Ebal. He makes a slight explanatory modification of the lxx changing logois to gegrammenois en tōi bibliōi. The idea is made clearer by the participle (gegrammenois) and bibliōi (book). The curse becomes effective only when the law is violated.
Cursed (epikataratos). Verbal adjective from epikataraomai, to imprecate curses, late word, common in lxx. In N.T. only here and Gal 3:13, but in inscriptions also (Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 96). The emphasis is on “continueth” (emmenei) and “all” (pāsin).