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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Galatians 3:22

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Galatians 3:22 (WEB)

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Jerome

  • “And so Paul says confidently,“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”; and“God hath shut up all under sin that He may have mercy upon all”; and similarly in other passages which we have repeated again and again.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 22.

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Augustine of Hippo

Leo the Great

  • “…by wicked error, and even God’s peculiar people Israel had well-nigh entirely fallen away from the enactments of the Law, now that all were shut up under sin, He might have mercy upon all.” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 22, cf. Rom. xi. 32.

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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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  • “For this (I suppose it was, that) the law of the Creator had “concluded all under sin,” and had brought in “all the world as guilty (before God),” and had “stopped every mouth,” so that none could glory through it, in order that grace might be maintained to the glory of the Christ, not of the Creator, but of Marcion!” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 22.

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