 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1832 - 552 pages
...knowledge after the image of him that created him. SERMON X. Design of the Jewish Law. GALATIANS iii. 19. Wherefore then serveth the Law ? It was added, because...the seed should come, to whom the promise was made. SERMON XI. Fulfilment of the Jewish Law. MATTHEW v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be... | |
 | 1833 - 360 pages
...was made after four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Why then was the law ? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come,to whom... | |
 | 1833 - 804 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise." And because it might have occurred to the hearer's thoughts to ask, for what purpose the law had been... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...it is no more of promise : but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then senxth the law I It was added because of transgressions, till the seed...was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one : but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises... | |
 | Russell Streeter - 1835 - 310 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promises of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise." But it would make the passage read strangely, to employ the v/ord threatenings instead of law. It would... | |
 | John Goodwin - 1835 - 568 pages
...blessedness are promised unto Abraham and his seed. Elsewhere he opposeth the law and the promise : " For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...promise : but God gave it to Abraham by promise." (Gal. iii. 18.) In another place, those that " are of the law," that is, as we formerly expounded the... | |
 | 1835 - 98 pages
...hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...of promise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. v. 15. The argument is from the smaller to the greater. (A minori ad majus.) A promise or contract... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1836 - 776 pages
...four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more...God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then scrveth the law ? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise... | |
 | Samuel Walker - 1836 - 606 pages
...made to his doctrine ; and, among others, this (verse 19 of this chapter) : ' If the inheritance be of promise, wherefore then serveth the law ? It was added,...the seed should come to whom the promise was made.' It was given because of sin, to make it known, and so, by showing the want of a Saviour, to dispose... | |
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And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more... 
