3:29,30
“Is God the God of the Jews only?” One of the recurrent themes in the Old Testament is that God is God of all the earth. He is not a “regional deity” with a limited sphere of influence! Every Jew would acknowledge this, indeed proudly acknowledge it. So God is God of the Gentiles as well as God of the Jews, so the implication is that God’s salvation is for the Gentiles as well as for the Jews. So God justifies both the circumcised and the uncircumcised through faith. The Jews reacted against the Gentiles being saved because they thought that it went against the Law and the Prophets, but they were mistaken. The salvation of the Gentiles, through faith, was entirely consistent with Law and the Prophets.
3:31
So far from overthrowing the Law, the gospel is entirely consistent with the Law, and is the true fulfilment of the Law. The gospel upholds the Law, it was actually the Jews who were denying the Law. The gospel acknowledges the rightness of God’s commands and standards, it proclaims the universal sinfulness of mankind, as does the Law. It says that only God, through Christ, can provide salvation for us. The Prophets all pointed towards Christ.
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