Matthew Poole Commentary - Galatians 3:23 - 3:23

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Galatians 3:23 - 3:23


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Before faith came; before the covenant of grace, or the doctrine of the gospel, or Christ himself, was revealed.



We were kept under the law; the apostle either speaks of all mankind, of whom it is true, that until God’s revelation of the covenant of grace, they had no other way of salvation made known to them than by the law of works; or else of the Jews, to whom, though before Christ there was a revelation of the gospel, yet it was more dark and imperfect, so as they



were kept under the law, but few apprehending any other way of justification than by the works of the law.



Shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed; but the apostle saith they were but shut up under it; God never intended it as that by the observance of which they should be saved; but as even then, to those whom he intended to save, he made a more secret revelation of his gospel, so he had now more fully and plainly revealed the way of salvatiou which he had from eternity established.