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Student Notes
Week 3
Spring 2000
Galatians 3:15-18
Structure
Claim:
Supports:
Literary/Theological context:
Main point before and after:
Theology
Define:
Meaning:
Parallel: Gen. 12:3, 13:15
Applications
Original audience:
Today:
Galatians 3: 19-24
Structure
Claim:
Supports:
Literary/Theological context:
Main point before and after:
Theology
Define:
Meaning:
Parallel: Deut. 33:2; Rom. 3:20 "where there is no law there is no transgression", 23, 6:14, 7:7ff.
Application
Original audience:
Today:
"The principal point…of the law… is to make men not better but worse; that is to say, it sheweth unto them their sin, that by the knowledge thereof they may be humbled, terrified, bruised and broken, and by this means may be driven to seek grace, and so to come to that blessed Seed (sc. Christ)," Martin Luther (quoted from Stott).
Galatians 3: 25-29
Structure
Claim:
Supports:
Literary/Theological context:
Theology
Define:
Meaning:
Parallel: Eph. 1, Rom. 4:13ff, Heb. 6:17ff, 1 Cor. 12:13
Application
Original audience:
Today:
Galatians 4:1-7
Structure
Claim:
Supports:
Literary/Theological context:
Theology
Define:
Meaning:
"So the divinity of Christ, the humanity of Christ and the righteousness of Christ uniquely qualified Him to be man's redeemer. If He had not been man, he could not have redeemed men. If He had not bee a righteous man, he could not have redeemed unrighteous men. And if He had not been God's Son, He could not have redeemed men for God or made them sons of God, (Stott, Galatians, p. 106).
Parallel: Eph. 1, Rom. 6:16, Col. 2:8,20
Application
Original audience:
Graeco-Roman metaphor:
Today:
