The law is our pedagogue

That’s the comment I read someone make on Galatians 3:24 recently:

The law is our pedagogue.

Great.

So I looked up pedagogue in the dictionary. I turns out that the commentator was correct, well done.

But why use that long word when you could have used ‘teacher’ just as well? Long words have a place, but not when you’re commenting on something in order to make it more straightforward for your readers!

If in doubt, KISS. Keep it simple, stupid.

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