Galatians 3:19 (WEB)
Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“It was added, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“But circumcision and the law of works occupied the intervening period.” — editor's note: [Note, the Gentile Church was the old religion and was Catholic; in Christ it became Catholic again: the Mosaic system was a parenthetical thing of fifteen…
Read the whole comment“This is the seed of which the apostle says in the Epistle to the Galatians, “that the law of works was established until the seed should come to whom the promise was made.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Gal. 3:19.)” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4Conference XXIII
“…“given by angels by the hand of a mediator,” and of which the same Apostle says: “So the law indeed is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good,” when they are compared with the perfection of the gospel are pronounced anything but good by the Divine oracle: for He says: “And I gave them precepts that…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19; Rom. vii. 12.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—But was not Moses called a mediator, though only a man?” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19. cf. Deut. v. 5
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the root has not entirely perished; the seed shall come to whom the promise was made, ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made, which [seed] was ordered through angels in the hand of a mediator;” that is, ordered through angels in His own hand.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19
Read the whole comment“…Chaldæan; but, that he might receive these great promises, and that there might be propagated from him a seed “disposed by angels in the hand of a Mediator,” in whom this universal way, thrown open to all nations for the deliverance of the soul, might be found, he was ordered to leave his country, and kindred, and…” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
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John Chrysostom
“For in the Epistle to the Galatians also he saith to this effect, “Being ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator.” ( Gal. iii. 19.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“Next for succour He gave the Law, ordaining it by angels in the hand of Moses; then the prophets, foretelling the salvation to come; judges, kings, and righteous men, doing great works, with a mighty hand.” — editor's note: cf. Gal. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Moses, when mediating for the people in things pertaining to God, was not a minister of the Spirit; for the law was given, “ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator,” namely Moses, in accordance with the summons of the people, “Speak thou with us,…but let not God speak with us.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For death, as I said above, gained from that time forth a legal hold over us, and it was impossible to evade the law, since it had been laid down by God because of the transgression, and the result was in truth at once monstrous and unseemly.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19 (verbally only).
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Tertullian
“But indeed it is superfluous to dwell on what he has erased, when he may be more effectually confuted from that which he has retained.” — editor's note: So, instead of pursuing the contents of chap. iii., he proceeds to such of chap. iv. as Marcion reserved.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And He has, he says, been liberated from the nature of the Good One likewise, in order that He may be a Mediator, as Paul states, and as Himself acknowledges: “Why call ye me good? there is one good.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Then, as if in explanation of his meaning, he adds: “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up,” manifestly through fear, in consequence of sins, “unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed; so that the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we should be justified by faith.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 19, 23, 24.
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Cross-references · 35
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.7.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:23–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:23–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 261.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §5.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VII.19.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:23–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 1:23–25 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.21.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VII.19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God X.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Letters Letter 261.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.25.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.7.