But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
All Commentaries on Galatians 3:23 Go To Galatians 3
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here he clearly puts forward what I have stated: for the expressions we were kept and shut up, signify nothing else than the security given by the commandments of the Law; which like a fortress fenced them round with fear and a life conformable to itself, and so preserved them unto Faith.
