“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.”
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, kept under guard until faith should be revealed. — the law functioned as phroureo (keep guard, hold prisoner), a custodial/restrictive force, an imprisonment that awaited faith's arrival and revelation ('apokalypsis'); this military metaphor suggests law as a garrison holding humanity until liberation.
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