<p>3:13- see on Acts 5:30.</p><p><i>Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us</i>- See on 3:1 <i>Bewitched you</i>.</p><p><i>For it is written: Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree</i>- The idea is not that for some reason, being hung on a tree made a person &quot;cursed&quot;. Those who had sinned unto death, according to the law of Moses, were &quot;cursed&quot; by that law; and those dead, legally cursed people were then hung on a tree. The point is that we have each become cursed by the Law of Moses through failing to completely obey it. And the perfect Lord Jesus was our representative; He there on the cross was and is everyman. It flows naturally from this that we would wish to immerse ourselves into His body there on the cross, identifying with Him, so that His resurrection can become ours. That is of course the meaning of baptism, but the spirit of that identification is to carry on through daily life and thought afterwards.</p><p>Note that Paul likens the Lord on the cross to the body of the criminal lifted up <i>after</i> death, not in order to lead to death (Gal. 3:13; Dt. 21:23)- as if he understood the Lord to have been effectively dead unto sin at the time the body was lifted up on the cross. It was as if the idea of the cross had been lived out throughout the Lord&rsquo;s life; He was dead as He lived, and dead to sin at the point that His body was lifted up on the tree.</p>