Galatians Summary Outline

1. Galatians Summary Outline • Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger • Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works • Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit

2. Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works • 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith • 3:10-14 The Curse of Works • 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise • 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law • 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ • 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism • 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

3. Galatians 3:21b “For if [assuming it were possible] there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.”

4. “The Test Question” Believing what was heard “observing the law”?

5. Gal 3:23: “this faith” James Boice “This faith is like the faith exercised by Abraham. But it is different in that it related to the explicit revelation of Christ in time and to the distinct Christian doctrines concerning him.”

6. Gal 3:23: “this faith” James Boice “This faith is like the faith exercised by Abraham. But it is different in that it related to the explicit revelation of Christ in time and to the distinct Christian doctrines concerning him.” Donald Campbell “Justifying faith was operative in the Old Testament but faith in the person and work of Christ did not come until He was revealed.”

7. “kept guard” froure,w (PHROUREŌ) Vine’s “a military term, to keep by guarding, to keep under guard, as with a garrison.”

8. “kept guard” froure,w (PHROUREŌ) Vine’s “a military term, to keep by guarding, to keep under guard, as with a garrison.” Is used: “(a) of blocking every way of escape, as in a siege; (b) of providing protection against the enemy.”

9. “kept guard” froure,w (PHROUREŌ) Imperfect continuous state of action in the past Passive object receives the action Indicative factual reality

10. “kept guard” froure,w (PHROUREŌ) Vine’s “a military term, to keep by guarding, to keep under guard, as with a garrison.” Is used: “(a) of blocking every way of escape, as in a siege; (b) of providing protection against the enemy.”

11. “kept” sugklei,wSUNKLEIŌ Vine’s “to shut together, shut in on all sides” v23 v22 NKJV “kept” “confined” NASB “shut up” “shut up” KJV “shut up” “concluded” NIV “locked up” “locked up”

12. Gal 3:23 James Boice “While the law was here…it did serve a purpose; and that purpose was to hold us prisoner, locking us up until Christ should be revealed…Most likely Paul is thinking here that the law, like a jailer, kept men locked up and therefore out of trouble till Christ, the liberator, should come to set them free.

13. Gal 3:23 James Boice “While the law was here…it did serve a purpose; and that purpose was to hold us prisoner, locking us up until Christ should be revealed…Most likely Paul is thinking here that the law, like a jailer, kept men locked up and therefore out of trouble till Christ, the liberator, should come to set them free. However, it is also possible that he intends the reference more generally, inasmuch as the next verse speaks of a different kind of confinement entirely.”

14. “tutor” paidagwgo,j (PAIDAGŌGOS)

15. “tutor” paidagwgo,j (PAIDAGŌGOS) Vine’s “a guide, or guardian or trainer of boys, lit., a child-leader (pais, a boy, or child, agō, to lead)”

16. “tutor” paidagwgo,j (PAIDAGŌGOS) Vine’s “In this and allied words the idea is that of training, discipline, not of impartation of knowledge. The paidagōgos was not the instructor of the child; he exercised a general supervision over him and was responsible for his moral and physical well-being. Thus understood, paidagōgos is appropriately used with ‘kept in ward’ and ‘shut up,’ whereas to understand it as equivalent to ‘teacher’ introduces an idea entirely foreign to the passage, and throws the Apostle’s argument into confusion.”

17. Gal 3:24-25: “tutor” Howard Vos “In the Greek the law is called paidagōgos, not a didaskalos. In other words, the law was an inferior slave or servant (paidagōgos) committed with the task of bringing the master’s son to school or to the schoolmaster (didaskalos). The pedagogue was charged with disciplining the child and giving him a moral training, with protecting him and regulating his outward habits. That was all the law could do; but when it led the son to Christ, its work was finished. In reality Christ was the schoolmaster (didaskalos); the translation has confused the picture or illustration, which would have been clear to a Roman of the day.”.”

18. Gal 3:24-25: “tutor” Ron Merryman “The law was the stern disciplinary-trainer that: a. constantly locked the true hearer in ward (in the sense of protection) where there was no room for subjectivity or compromise relative to sin (v. 23); and b. constantly shut the hearer up under sin in bondage to condemnation (v. 22) with no escape possible (save the promise of the coming Messiah-Deliverer). “Therefore, the law was the stern, uncompromising guardian that led the hearer to Christ.”

19. Gal 3:23: “this faith” James Boice “This faith is like the faith exercised by Abraham. But it is different in that it related to the explicit revelation of Christ in time and to the distinct Christian doctrines concerning him.”

20. Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works • 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith • 3:10-14 The Curse of Works • 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise • 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law • 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ • 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism • 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

21. Galatians Doctrines The Gospel Justification Grace Law Legalism Liberty Sanctification Spirituality Sowing & Reaping