SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:22
Mas encerr la Escritura todo bajo pecado, para que la promesa fuese dada a los creyentes por la fe de Jess, el Cristo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Galatians 3:22
Verse 22. But the scripture hath concluded] All the writings of the prophets have uniformly declared that men are all sinners, and the law declares the same by the continual sacrifices which it prescribes. All, therefore have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; and, being tried and found guilty, sunekleisen h grafh, the Scripture hath shut them up-put them in prison, and locked them up, till the time should come in which the sentence of the law should be executed upon them: (See Rom. iii. 9-20, and the notes there; and particularly Rom. xi. 32, where the apostle uses the same metaphor, and which in the note is particularly explained.) That the promise of justification, by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin , etc..] By the Scripture is meant, either the writing of the law in particular, the killing letter, or the whole Scripture, or God in it; and who by and in it has shown, declared, and proved, that all the individuals of human nature, Jews and Gentiles, and all that is in them, and done by them, are under the power and dominion of sin, defiled by it, and involved in the guilt of it; for it is not pantav , all persons, but panta , all things, belonging to all persons; all the members of their bodies, and faculties of their souls; all their thoughts, inclinations, and intentions; all their works and services, even their best righteousness, which is as filthy rags; all are declared to be sinful and polluted, and men on account of them to be guilty before God, and liable to punishment; from whence there can be no escape by the law of works; for they are like men concluded, or shut up in a prison, from which there is no apparent likelihood of deliverance: now the Spirit of God, discovering to men this their wretched and desperate condition, under the law and sin, reveals Christ and his righteousness to them, and enables and encourages them to believe in him, by whom only they can be justified from all things, they cannot by the law of Moses, in which they see themselves shut up, as in a prison: that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe ; by the promise is intended, the promise of life and salvation, and particularly of a justifying righteousness; which is given, not merited; righteousness is a gift, a gift of grace, a free gift, and so is eternal life; salvation in all its parts is of free grace; Christ is a free gift, and so are all things along with him; yea, faith itself, by which they are received, it is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God; Christ is the author and finisher, as well as the object of it; and therefore here called the faith of Jesus Christ: and such that have it, to them the promise, or the things promised, righteousness and life are given, which the law could not give; not to them that work, but to them that believe: thus the law is so far from being against the promises of God, that it is subservient to them; for though the law has no tendency in itself to bring persons to Christ, and to believe in him for righteousness, yet this concluding men under sin, showing them their desperate, and hopeless, and helpless condition, the Spirit of God takes occasion from hence to reveal Christ unto them, and to enable them as perishing creatures to venture on him, and lay hold on the hope set before them in the Gospel; and so they come to enjoy the grand promise of it, even life and salvation by Christ.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 19-22 - If that promise was enough for salvation, wherefore then serveth the law? The Israelites, though chosen to be God's peculiar people, wer sinners as well as others. The law was not intended to discover a wa of justification, different from that made known by the promise, but to lead men to see their need of the promise, by showing the sinfulness of sin, and to point to Christ, through whom alone they could be pardone and justified. The promise was given by God himself; the law was give by the ministry of angels, and the hand of a mediator, even Moses Hence the law could not be designed to set aside the promise. mediator, as the very term signifies, is a friend that comes betwee two parties, and is not to act merely with and for one of them. The great design of the law was, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those that believe; that, being convinced of their guilt, and the insufficiency of the law to effect a righteousness for them, they might be persuaded to believe on Christ, and so obtain the benefit of the promise. And it is not possible that the holy, just, an good law of God, the standard of duty to all, should be contrary to the gospel of Christ. It tends every way to promote it.
Greek Textus Receptus
αλλα 235 συνεκλεισεν 4788 5656 η 3588 γραφη 1124 τα 3588 παντα 3956 υπο 5259 αμαρτιαν 266 ινα 2443 η 3588 επαγγελια 1860 εκ 1537 πιστεως 4102 ιησου 2424 χριστου 5547 δοθη 1325 5686 τοις 3588 πιστευουσιν 4100 5723
Vincent's NT Word Studies
22. But it is not true that the law gives life, for the law, according to scripture, condemned all alike.
The scripture (h grafh). Scripture is personified. See on verse 8. Hath concluded (sunekleisen). Better, hath shut up, as a jailer. Only in Paul, with the exception of Luke v. 6. Frequent in LXX. Not included with others, but confined as within an enclosure, as Luke v. 6, of the net enclosing the fish. Comp. Exod. xiv. 3; Josh. vi. 1; 1 Macc. iv. 31. Scripture, in its divine utterances on the universality and guilt of sin, is conceived as a jailer who shuts all up in sin as in a prison. Comp. Romans iii. 10-19; xi. 32.
All (ta panta). Neuter, all things collectively: = all men. For the neuter in a similar comprehensive sense, see 1 Cor. i. 27; Col. i. 20; Eph. i. 10.
That (ina). In order that. That which is represented through a personification as the act of Scripture, is the act of God, according to a definite purpose that the promise should be inherited by believers only, through faith in Jesus Christ.
The promise (h epaggelia). That is, the thing promised; the inheritance, verse 18.
By faith (ek pistewv). Const. with the promise, not with might be given. The promised gift which is the result of faith. The false teachers claimed that it was the result of works.
To them that believe (toiv pisteuousin). Not tautological. Even the Judaisers held that salvation was intended for believers, but also that legal obedience was its procuring cause; against which Paul asserts that it is simply for those that believe.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:22 {Hath shut up} (sunekleisen). Did shut together. First aorist active indicative of sunkleiw, old verb to shut together, on all sides, completely as a shoal of fish in a net (#Lu 5:6). So verse #23; Ro 11:32. {Under Sin} (hupo hamartian). See hupo kataran in verse #10. As if the lid closed in on us over a massive chest that we could not open or as prisoners in a dungeon. He uses ta panta (the all things), the totality of everything. See #Ro 3:10-19; 11:32. {That} (hina). God's purpose, personifying scripture again. {Might be given} (doqei). First aorist passive subjunctive of didwmi with hina.
