Galatians3:24
Translation
Therefore, the Law has become our guide
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Paraphrase
Therefore, the Law was put in charge of us to tutor us and train us toward Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.
Footnotes
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The word which I have rendered as “guide” has no English equivalent. It referred to a carefully chosen slave who was put in charge of the care and some of the instruction of boys. He was a strict disciplinarian, a tutor, a trainer, and a guide for a boy’s development. However, he was not a teacher in the way we usually think of teachers. All of our English words point to only one aspect of this process, but this word encompassed several aspects of a boy’s development. We get our English words Pedagogy and Pedagogical from this Greek word.