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This New Testament commentary series reflects a sound knowledge of the text and a gift for practical application of Scripture truth. Some commentaries are primarily linguistic, others are mostly theological, and some are mainly homiletical. This series is expository, doctrinal and practical. It focuses on the main doctrines in each text and how they relate to other Scriptures and what they mean...

In this text Paul continues to contrast grace and law, faith and works. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit he employs an Old Testament story as an analogy, which serves not so much as an argument as an illustration. The translators of both the King James Version and the New American Standard Bible have chosen simply to transliterate rather than translate the term allēgoreō (allegorically, v. 24). This has led to difficulty in handling the passage, because usually an allegory is either a
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