Galatians 3:13 (WEB)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
Catechism · 1
“Jesus fulfils the Law to the point of taking upon himself "the curse of the Law" incurred by those who do not "abide by the things written in the book of the Law, and do them", for his death took place to redeem them "from the transgressions under the first covenant".” — Catechism footnote: Gal 3:13; 3:10; Heb 9:15.
Fathers and councils · 34
Gregory of Nyssa
“…and by His own death do away with the common death of all men,—then it was that for our sakes He was made obedient, even as He became “sin” and “a curse” by reason of the dispensation on our behalf, not being so by nature, but becoming so in His love for man.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“…and which calls by the name of “making” the transmutation of the Mortal to the Immortal, of the Servant to the Lord, of Sin to Righteousness, of the Curse to the Blessing, of the Man to Christ.” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. iii. 13
Read the whole comment“…heavenly place, for this cause, as saith the Apostle, He Who knew no sin is made sin for us, and frees us from the curse by taking on Him our curse as His own, and having taken up, and, in the language of the Apostle, “slain” in Himself “the enmity” which by means of sin had come between us and God,—(in fact sin was…” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. iii. 13
Read the whole comment“For if he had learned the Divine names, he must have known that our Lord is called a Curse and Sin, and a Heifer, and a lion’s Whelp, and a Bear bereaved of her whelps, and a Leopard and such-like names, according to various modes of conception, by Holy…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13; Deut. xxi. 23.
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Tertullian
“For “cursed are they which are hanged on a tree,”—a curse which, after the law, is compatible to the Son (inasmuch as “Christ has been made a curse for us,” but certainly not the Father); since, however, you convert Christ into the Father, you are chargeable with blasphemy against the Father.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“…it is not credible that God should have exposed His own Son to that kind of death; because Himself said, “Cursed is every one who shall have hung on a tree.”” — editor's note: Comp. Deut. xxi. 23 with Gal. iii. 13, with Prof. Lightfoot on the latter passage.
Read the whole comment“…is it of God and His ways of acting, who spared not His own Son for you, that He might be made a curse for us, because cursed is he that hangeth on a tree,—Him who was led as a sheep to be a sacrifice, and just as a lamb before its shearer, so opened He not His mouth; but gave His back to the scourges, nay, His…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32; Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“The Lord Himself was “cursed” in the eye of the law; and yet is He the only Blessed One.” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23; Gal. iii. 13. Tertullian’s quotations here are somewhat loose. He renders words which are distinct in the Greek by the same in his Latin.
Read the whole comment““Cursed,” says He, “is every one who hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Compare Deut. xxi. 23 with Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“Why, however, “Christ was made a curse for us,” is declared by the apostle himself in a way which quite helps our side, as being the result of the Creator’s appointment.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…to be flesh, but to have put on flesh and become man, and on hearing, ‘Christ hath become a curse for us,’ and ‘He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin,’ we do not simply conceive this, that whole Christ has become curse and sin, but that He has taken on Him the curse which lay against us (as the Apostle has…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13; 2 Cor. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“For what John said, ‘The Word was made flesh,’ has this meaning, as we may see by a similar passage; for it is written in Paul: ‘Christ has become a curse for us.’” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“For if He came Himself to bear the curse laid upon us, how else could He have “become a curse,” unless He received the death set for a curse? and that is the Cross.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Jerome
“iii. 10, 13.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For “cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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John Damascene
“…association and relation, as, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? and He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin, and being made a curse for us; also, Then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him For neither as God nor as man was He ever forsaken by the Father, nor…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Justin Martyr
“Then I replied, “Just as God commanded the sign to be made by the brazen serpent, and yet He is blameless; even so, though a curse lies in the law against persons who are crucified, yet no curse lies on the Christ of God, by whom all that have committed things worthy of a curse are saved.” — editor's note: [Gal. iii. 13.]
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““The expression of John ‘the Word was made flesh’ has this interpretation, so far as can be discovered from the similar passage which we find in St. Paul ‘Christ was made a curse for us.’” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13
Read the whole comment“Orth.—But the blessed Paul calls Him “sin” and “curse.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13
Read the whole comment“Listen to him as he says “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,” and elsewhere “Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death,” and in another place, “For as many of you as…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13
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Ambrose of Milan
“…that for my sake Christ bore my infirmities, submitted to the affections of my body, that for me, that is to say, for every man, He was made sin, and a curse, that for me and in me was He humbled and made subject, that for me He is the Lamb, the Vine, the Rock, the Servant, the Son of an handmaid, knowing not the day…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. v. 21; Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment““For cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“Have they read also to-day, “that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us”?” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…the Apostle, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment““For Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“Only the shameful nature of the death which our Lord vouchsafed to undergo for us is not now so apparent, Who, as the Apostle says, “was made a curse for us.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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John Chrysostom
““Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” ( Matt. xi. 28 ); and Paul, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.” ( Gal. iii. 13.)” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“It was from this curse that our Lord Jesus Christ redeemed us, when, as the Apostle says: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made curse for us, for it is written: cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“And so the passage, The Word was made Flesh, seems to me to be equivalent to that in which it is said that He was made sin, or a curse for us; not that the Lord was transformed into either of these, how could He be?” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment “He imitates Christ, who became a curse for us, who took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses; or, to use more measured terms, he is ready, next to Christ, to suffer anything, even as one of the ungodly, for them, if only they be saved.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“But look at it in this manner: that as for my sake He was called a curse, Who destroyed my curse; and sin, who taketh away the sin of the world; and became a new Adam to take the place of the old, just so He makes my disobedience His own as Head of the whole body.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“For how can He be sin, Who setteth us free from sin; and how can He be a curse, Who redeemeth us from the curse of the Law?” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 10, 13.
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Basil the Great
“But you must hear too the words, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law;” and “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13.
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Cross-references · 21
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Catechism §580.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Catechism §580.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24 and 2 other places.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Catechism §580.
Cited together in Catechism §580.
Cited together in Catechism §580.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.