17And 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.
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Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. …
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. …
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: …
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)The apostle having reproved the Galatians for not obeying the truth, and endeavoured to impress them with a sense of their folly herein, in these verses he largely proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for rejecting, namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways. I. From the example of Abraham’s justification. This argument the apostle uses…
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