OT-HISTORY.filter - rwp Acts:9:24:

rwp@Galatians:3:23 @{Before faith came} (\pro tou elthein tn pistin\). "Before the coming (second aorist active infinitive of \erchomai\, definite event) as to the Faith" (note article, meaning the faith in verse 22| made possible by the historic coming of Christ the Redeemer), the faith in Christ as Saviour (verse 22|). {We were kept in ward under the law} (\huper nomon ephrouroumetha\). Imperfect passive of \phroure\, to guard (from \phrouros\, a guard). See on ¯Acts:9:24; strkjv@2Corinthians:11:32|. It was a long progressive imprisonment. {Unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed} (\eis tn mellousan pistin apokaluphthnai\). "Unto the faith (verse 22| again) about to be revealed." \Mell\ and the first aorist passive infinitive (regular idiom).