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Don't you think his meaning is better represented by the description he composed about the tutor (παιδαγωγός) whose job was to lead the people to the Messiah?
ὥστε ὁ νόμος παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν γέγονεν εἰς Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν.
That the law became our tutor unto Christ, so that we might be justified from faith. (Gal 3:24)
The law, according to Paul, was the tutor put into effect to take care of the children, to make sure that they would learn the lessons necessary and finally come into adulthood and reach the goal of their education: the Messiah. Notice what he then says about this tutor (read: the Torah) once they had reached that goal.
ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς πίστεως οὐκέτι ὑπὸ παιδαγωγόν ἐσμεν.
But once faith has come, we are no longer under the tutor. (Gal 3:25)
What, again, is the tutor in Paul's analogy? Who, in the analogy, put the tutor into effect? What was the purpose of the tutor? How is this spelled out in the the next chapter of Galatians?
Paul writes so very clearly that I find it hard to believe that people don't understand him. I wonder if it's a willful misunderstanding.
This "no longer under the tutor" is the same as "not under the law" — that is, the law (Torah) is no longer in charge of the life of those who believe in Jesus. Paul stated, again, that he had "died" to the law and was alive only to Christ (Gal 2:19-20).
Yes, I do, but many have interpreted that to mean that now that we've had the tutor, we no longer need the tutor because we have 'Christ'. Well, we need teachers in life but does that mean that we throw away the principles of the teacher? Not at all. Now that we are no longer 'babes in faith' we are the ones who are to uphold those principles even more so. Torah was the tutor to bring us to Messiah, yes, but that doesn't mean that now with Messiah, we have no need of Torah's principles; on the contrary, now that we know the full truth of what torah was leading to, we must uphold torah even more so. If Yeshua came to be the living example of torah .... what? Are we throwing away everything that Yeshua did? It's the difference between being a 'babe in the faith' and a 'teacher in the faith'; between a disciple and an apostle! Paul never at any time either preached or lived against torah.
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