Text -- Galatians 3:24 (NET)

3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gal 3:24

¹ tn Or “disciplinarian,” “custodian,” or “guide.” According to BDAG 748 s.v. παιδαγωγός, “the man, usu. a slave…whose duty it was to conduct a boy or youth…to and from school and to superintend his conduct gener.; he was not a ‘teacher’ (despite the present mng. of the derivative ‘pedagogue’…When the young man became of age, the π. was no longer needed.” L&N 36.5 gives “guardian, leader, guide” here.

² tn Or “be justified.”