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Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

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CUSTODIAN*

Servant whose responsibility was to accompany, protect, and sometimes discipline his master’s son until the boy reached maturity. These custodians supervised their charges’ moral conduct and general behavior. Their methods of persuasion varied from physical punishment to shaming. Paul regarded the Mosaic law as a “schoolmaster” (KJB) or “tutor” (nasb) to lead us to Christ (Gal 3:24-25). To return to the law represented a reversion to childhood.

Show passage in OET: GAL 3:24–25

OET-RV GAL 3:24

24 So the law was our tutor until the messiah came so that we could then be made guiltless by faith,

OET-RV GAL 3:25

25 and now that we’ve come to faith, we’re no longer under our tutor.

OET-LV GAL 3:24

24 So_that the law, has_become tutor of_us to chosen_one/messiah, in_order_that we_may_be_justified by faith.

OET-LV GAL 3:25

25 But the faith having_come, we_are no_longer under a_tutor.

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