- The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ.
- What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.
- For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
- What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.
- A mediator, however, does not represent just one party; but God is one.
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- 所應許的原是向亞伯拉罕和他子孫說的. 神並不是說眾子孫、指著許多人、乃是說你那一個子孫、指著一個人、就是基督。
- 我是這麼說、 神豫先所立的約、不能被那四百三十年以後的律法廢掉、叫應許歸於虛空。
- 因為承受產業、若本乎律法、就不本乎應許.但 神是憑著應許、把產業賜給亞伯拉罕。
- 這樣說來、律法是為甚麼有的呢.原是為過犯添上的、等候那蒙應許的子孫來到.並且是藉天使經中保之手設立的。
- 但中保本不是為一面作的. 神卻是一位。
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