Cyrus Ingerson Scofield

“ The law, therefore, "concluded all under sin" Romans 3:19,20,23. (3) The law was an ad interim dealing, "till the seed should come". Galatians 3:19. (4) The law shut sinful man up to faith as the only avenue of escape. Galatians 3:23. (5) The law was to the Jews what the pedagogue was in a Greek household, a ruler of children in their minority, and it had this character "unto" i.e. until Christ Galatians 3:24. (6) Christ having come, the believer is no longer under the pedagogue. ”

“ The Galatians know Paul, that he is no seeker after popularity Galatians 1:10. (2) He puts his known character back of the assertion that his Gospel of grace was a revelation from God (Galatians 1:11,12) . (3) As for the Judaizers, Paul had been a foremost Jew, and had forsaken Judaism for something better (Galatians 1:13-14) . (4) He had preached grace years before he saw any of the other apostles (Galatians 1:15-24) . (5) When he did meet the other apostles they had nothing to add to his revelations Galatians 2:1-6. (6) The other apostles fully recognized Paul's apostleship. ”

“ Verse 11 large
(Greek - αὑτου̑ [3] ) ...mine own hand." The apostle was, it appears from many considerations, afflicted with ophthalmia, a common disease in the East, to the point almost of total blindness (e.g.) ”