Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Under a curse (upo kataran). Picture of the curse hanging over them like a Damocles' blade. Cf. Romans 3:9 "under sin" (uf amartian). The word for "curse" (katara) is an old one (kata, down, ara, imprecation), often in LXX, in N.T. only here and Galatians 3:13; James 3:10; II Peter 2:14. Paul quotes Deuteronomy 27:26, the close of the curses on Mt. Ebal. He makes a slight explanatory modification of the LXX changing logoiv to gegrammenoiv en tw bibliw. The idea is made clearer by the participle (gegrammenoiv) and bibliw (book). The curse becomes effective only when the law is violated.
Cursed (epikataratov). Verbal adjective from epikataraomai, to imprecate curses, late word, common in LXX. In N.T. only here and verse Galatians 3:13, but in inscriptions also (Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 96). The emphasis is on "continueth" (emmenei) and "all" (pasin).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Galatians 3:10:
2 Corinthians 3:7
Galatians 3:13
Galatians 3:16
Galatians 3:22
Galatians 5:3
Hebrews 6:8
2 Peter 3:16
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