<p>3:24 <i>S</i><i>o that the law became our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith</i> - The ultimate teacher must be the Lord Himself, not the pastor or speaking brother. The Law was a <i>paidogogos</i>, a slave who lead the children to the school teacher. And the teacher, Paul says, is Christ (Gal. 3:23-25). He uses the whole body to make increase of itself in love- not just the elders. As explained under 3:21, the law's bringing men to Christ was not in that people understood the types and patterns as being Messianic; for here in Galatians 3, Paul says that mankind was &quot;shut up&quot; to all that; but rather in bringing us to know our desperation, to highlight our sin, our chronic lack of steel within the soul to bring ourselves to obedience.</p>