“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspringor, seed and heirs according to promise.”
— WEB
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspringor, seed and heirs according to promise.”
— WEB
“And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
— KJV
“And if ye are Christ`s, then are ye Abraham`s seed, heirs according to promise.”
— ASV
and heirs--The oldest manuscripts omit "and." Christ is "Abraham's seed" (Gal 3:16): ye are "one in Christ" (Gal 3:28), and one with Christ, as having "put on Christ" (Gal 3:27); therefore YE are "Abraham's seed," which is tantamount to saying (whence the "and" is omitted), ye are "heirs according to the promise" (not "by the law," Gal 3:18); for it was to Abraham's seed that the inheritance was promised (Gal 3:16). Thus he arrives at the same truth which he set out with (Gal 3:7). But one new "seed" of a righteous succession could be found. One single faultless grain of human nature was found by God Himself, the source of a new and imperishable seed: "the seed" (Psa 22:30) who receive from Him a new nature and name (Gen 3:15; Isa 53:10-11; Joh 12:24). In Him the lineal descent from David becomes extinct. He died without posterity. But He lives and shall reign on David's throne. No one has a legal claim to sit upon it but Himself, He being the only living direct representative (Eze 21:27). His spiritual seed derive their birth from the travail of His soul, being born again of His word, which is the incorruptible seed (Joh 1:12; Rom 9:8; Pe1 1:23). Next: Galatians Chapter 4
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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