Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Galatians 3:23
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Galatians3:23
23. faith--namely, that just mentioned (Ga 3:22), of which Christ is the object.
kept--Greek, "kept in ward": the effect of the "shutting up" (Ga 3:22; Ga 4:2; Ro 7:6).
unto--"with a view to the faith," &c. We were, in a manner, morally forced to it, so that there remained to us no refuge but faith. Compare the phrase, Psa 78:50, Margin; Psa 31:8.
which should afterwards, &c.--"which was afterwards to be revealed."
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