Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
25. But after that faith is come. This phrase has been already considered. It denotes the brighter revelation of grace after that “the vail of the temple was rent in twain,” (Matthew 27:51,) which, we know, was effected by the manifestation of Christ.
The law was given to convince men of sin and to restrain them from running into excess. It was never meant to overthrow the promise, but to serve it by directing sinners to Christ, the only way sin is expiated and pardoned.
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Commenting on Galatians 3:19-29
But after that faith is come,.... That is, since Christ the object of faith is come in the flesh, and has fulfilled the law, and redeemed them that were under it from its bondage, curse, and condemnation: we are no longer under a schoolmaster; under the law as such; as no longer under it as a military guard, nor in it as a prison, so...