24 The law, then, was our guardian[a] until Christ,(A) so that we could be justified by faith. 25 But since that faith(B) has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:24 The word translated guardian in vv. 24-25 is different from the word in Gl 4:2. In our culture, we do not have a slave who takes a child to and from school, protecting the child from harm or corruption. In Gk the word paidogogos described such a slave. This slave was not a teacher.

24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came(A) that we might be justified by faith.(B) 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.(C)

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