“For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.”
For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it is no longer by promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham by a promise. — the logical antithesis: inheritance ('klēronomia') secured by law contradicts inheritance by promise ('epangelia'); God's mode is grace-based promise, not works-based law, establishing that the Abrahamic inheritance belongs to faith, not to legal achievement.
Church Fathers on Galatians 3:18
“Now to Abraham were the promises spoken and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of One, And to your seed, which is Christ. Now this I say, A covenant, confirmed before hand by God the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance is of the Law, it is no more of promise: but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.” Thus God made a covenant with Abraham,…
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