IN the quote below there is a reference to ancient drawsings of a paidagōgos. anyone have any idea how one might find such drawings?
This is Paul’s second metaphorical description of the law. The Greek word is paidagōgos and means literally a ‘tutor, i.e. a guide and guardian of boys’ (Grimm-Thayer). He was usually himself a slave, whose duty it was ‘to conduct the boy or youth to and from school, and to superintend his conduct generally’ (Arndt-Gingrich). The AV translation ‘schoolmaster’ is unfortunate, for the paidagōgos was not the boy’s teacher so much as his disciplinarian. He was often harsh to the point of cruelty, and is usually depicted in ancient drawings with a rod or cane in his hand.
John R. W. Stott, The Message of Galatians: Only One Way, The Bible Speaks Today (Leicester, England; Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 97.
