...righteousness should have come by the law;" but, as it does not, I choose not to " frustrate the grace of God, for, if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," Gal. ii. 21. But, if only temporal life be intended in the law's promise, agreeable to the first commandment...

...necessity. The necessity of the atonement of Christ, is clearly taught also by the apostle, Gal. ii. 21. " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." It is to no purpose to pretend that the law, in this passage, means the ceremonial law ; because he...

...written, and thus the all-wise God, whose judgment is always according to truth, viewed the affair, viz. If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. To say, " that although righteousness does come by the law, yet Christ did not die in vain, as his...

...been for this, the death of an incarnate God had been entirely needless. For thus heaven has declared, if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Well therefore might the holy apostle sum up the whole of the glorious Gospel in one word, We preach...

..." revived and I died;"3 where the moral law exclusively is meant beyond all doubt : and he adds, t' If " righteousness come by the law, then Christ is *' dead in vain ;" which equally holds good of the moral as of the ritual law. — (l As many as are of the " works...

...of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 2 1 I do not frustrate the grace of God ; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. PARAPHRASE. and live acceptably to him in his kingdom, which lie has £0 now set up under his Son....

...Ghost, would be superseded altogether ; hence the ApOstle says *, " I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." — " The whole need not a physician, but them that are sick ;" and experience proves, that Jesus is...

...righteousness in the following texts means neither more nor less than justification. Gal. ii. 21 ;" " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Chap. iii. 21 : " If there had been a law which could have given life, (spiritual life, or a title...

...the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ii. 21, I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. iii. 17, The covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and...

...shadows, for the substance of the great atonement. Heuce he says, in the last verse of the chapter, " If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." The truly pious and benevolent often carry the matter too far, of giving offence to none, and seeking...