GALATIANS 4:4-5, C. H. Cayce “God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law”
The law referred to could not very well have been the law given by Moses on Mount Sinai, for that law was given to the Jews. The Gentiles were never required to keep the ordinances contained in that law. That law, with all the ordinances connected with it, was given to the Jews. It is true that the moral requirements contained in it, such as “thou shalt not steal,” “thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “thou shalt not kill,” were binding on the Gentiles; but this law was not given to them. But the Lord had a people among the Gentiles, and they were under the curse of some law. They were under the curse of the same law that the Jews were under.
All were under curse just alike. The Sinai law did not curse all alike. Caleb and Joshua observed the law and thereby entered the promised land. Many fell in the wilderness, failed to enter the promised land, because they failed to observe the requirements of the same law which Caleb and Joshua kept. Caleb and Joshua needed a Redeemer just as much as the others did, but they did not need one to redeem them from under the law given by Moses, for they observed that law themselves.
Many of God’s people were never under the law of Moses. None of those who lived and died before Moses were under that law. But they were under the curse of the same law that all others of God’s people were under. The curse of the law they were under was death. The penalty of the law which they were under was death. The sentence was death. They must be redeemed from death in order that they be saved in heaven. Jesus came down to where they were-under the law that condemned to death— and suffered the penalty of that law for them. He went into death and arose from the dead. Thereby He redeemed them. They were under the law before. But He went down to where they were and paid the price of their redemption. He met all the demands that were against them. He therefore redeemed all His people from the curse of the law of sin and death. The Primitive Baptist, May 14, 1912.