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To the young church in Galatia, marred by ethnic and social rivalries, Paul made his great healing declaration of unity through faith in Christ. Abolished were the divisions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female. Christians today will also find a healing word addressed to present-day divisions of race, social class and gender. The new community in Christ draws its life not from...

(3:9)* The blessing promised to Abraham for all nations is appropriated by those who have faith. This application in verse 9 of verse 8’s quotation from Scripture is parallel to the application in verse 7 of the Scripture quotation in verse 6. Both applications have as subject those who have faith. Two related descriptions are given of those who have faith: they are children of Abraham (v. 7), and they are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith (v. 9). The point Paul is making from his exposition
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