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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 3:20

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Galatians 3:20 (WEB)

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

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Gregory of Nyssa

  • “Since, then, a mediator is not a mediator of one, and God is one, not divided among the Persons in Whom we have been taught to believe (for the Godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost is one), the Lord, therefore, becomes a mediator once for all betwixt God and men, binding man to the Deity by Himself.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 20.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “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…

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Hippolytus of Rome

  • “Now a mediator is not of one man, but two,”—it was therefore necessary that Christ, in becoming the Mediator between God and men, should receive from both an earnest of some kind, that He might appear as the Mediator between two distinct persons.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 20.

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