x.:--"And let us not pollute ourselves with fornication, as some of them were polluted, and fell in one day to the number of twenty-three thousand." Here is a blunder, for it is written " twenty-four thousand."-- Num.

25.
Gal.iii., 13, Paul says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." What he says of the Christ, or the Messiah redeeming from the curses written in the law, that by no means agrees with truth; for no Jew can be freed from the curses of the law, but by repenting of his sins, and becoming obedient to it.
And in alledging the words "cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree," from Deut.xxi., he, as usual, applies them irrelevantly.
Paul says, Gal.

iii, 10:--"For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse; for it is written, Deut.xxvii.26, ' Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.'" And he interprets this to mean that all mankind, Jews and Gentile, are liable to damnation, (except those who are saved by faith) because no man ever did continue in all things written in the law.

Now, in the first place I would observe, that Paul has inserted the word "all" in the passage he quotes from Deuteronomy, (in the original of which it is not) in order to make it support his system; for the whole of his argument is built upon this one surreptitiously inserted word.2.The words according to the original are simply these:--"Cursed is he that continueth not the words of this law to do them;" i.

e.,--He who disobeys, or neglects to fulfil the commands of the law, shall be under the curse denounced upon the disobedient.