Galatians 4:1-7
THE SONSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. The believers sons and heirs through Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. The believers sons and heirs through Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I SAY, THAT THE HEIR, AS LONG AS HE IS A CHILD, DIFFERS NOTHING FROM A SERVANT, THOUGH HE BE LORD OF ALL,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IS UNDER TUTORS AND GOVERNORS UNTIL THE TIME APPOINTED OF THE FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WERE IN BONDAGE UNDER THE ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, MADE OF A WOMAN, MADE UNDER THE LAW,... [ Continue Reading ]
TO REDEEM THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BECAUSE YE ARE SONS, GOD HATH SENT FORTH THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO YOUR HEARTS, CRYING, ABBA, FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE THOU ART NO MORE A SERVANT, BUT A SON; AND IF A SON, THEN AN HEIR OF GOD THROUGH CHRIST. The apostle here gives a further explanation as to the purpose of the Law in the Old Testament, namely, that it was not intended to give life and salvation to men, but to serve as a pedagogue unto Chri... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, THEN, WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD, YE DID SERVICE UNTO THEM WHICH BY NATURE ARE NO GODS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The foolishness of backsliding from this truth:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW, AFTER THAT YE HAVE KNOWN GOD, OR RATHER ARE KNOWN OF GOD, HOW TURN YE AGAIN TO THE WEAK AND BEGGARLY ELEMENTS WHEREUNTO YE DESIRE AGAIN TO BE IN BONDAGE?... [ Continue Reading ]
YE OBSERVE DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND TIMES, AND YEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM AFRAID OF YOU, LEST I HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU LABOR IN VAIN. The apostle here interrupts his doctrinal exposition to rebuke the Galatians for their strange conduct in turning back to a slavery of legal observance from which he had rescued them long ago: But at that time indeed, when you did not... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN, I BESEECH YOU, BE AS I AM; FOR I AM AS YE ARE; YE HAVE NOT INJURED ME AT ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
A personal appeal for the truth against the false teachers:... [ Continue Reading ]
YE KNOW HOW THROUGH INFIRMITY OF THE FLESH I PREACHED THE GOSPEL UNTO YOU AT THE FIRST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MY TEMPTATION WHICH WAS IN MY FLESH YE DESPISED NOT, NOR REJECTED, BUT RECEIVED ME AS AN ANGEL OF GOD, EVEN AS CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE IS, THEN, THE BLESSEDNESS YE SPAKE OF? FOR I BEAR YOU RECORD THAT, IF IT HAD BEEN POSSIBLE, YE WOULD HAVE PLUCKED OUT YOUR OWN EYES AND HAVE GIVEN THEM TO ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AM I, THEREFORE, BECOME YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ZEALOUSLY AFFECT YOU, BUT NOT WELL; YEA, THEY WOULD EXCLUDE YOU THAT YE MIGHT AFFECT THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IT IS GOOD TO BE ZEALOUSLY AFFECTED ALWAYS IN A GOOD THING, AND NOT ONLY WHEN I AM PRESENT WITH YOU. Having struck a personal note, the apostle here continues in the same strain, with all the eager kindness of his loving heart: Deal with me as I dealt with you, brethren, I beg of you. He holds u... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LITTLE CHILDREN, OF WHOM I TRAVAIL IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
An urgent appeal to an Old Testament example:... [ Continue Reading ]
I DESIRE TO BE PRESENT WITH YOU NOW, AND TO CHANGE MY VOICE; FOR I STAND IN DOUBT OF YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
TELL ME, YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YE NOT HEAR THE LAW?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN THAT ABRAHAM HAD TWO SONS, THE ONE BY A BONDMAID, THE OTHER BY A FREEWOMAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE WHO WAS OF THE BOND-WOMAN WAS BORN AFTER THE FLESH; BUT HE OF THE FREEWOMAN WAS BY PROMISE. The love of the apostle for his deluded Galatians here flashes forth in a passage in which he, for once, uses the endearing designation of a mother for the children which she has born. He once more fee... [ Continue Reading ]
The explanation of the story:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY; FOR THESE ARE THE TWO COVENANTS; THE ONE FROM THE MOUNT SINAI, WHICH GENDERETH TO BONDAGE, WHICH IS AGAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS AGAR IS MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA, AND ANSWERETH TO JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND IS IN BONDAGE WITH HER CHILDREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE IS FREE, WHICH IS THE MOTHER OF US ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN, REJOICE, THOU BARREN THAT BEAREST NOT; BREAK FORTH AND CRY, THOU THAT TRAVAILEST NOT; FOR THE DESOLATE HATH MANY MORE CHILDREN THAN SHE WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND. Paul here, by the inspiration of God, gives a figurative or allegorical explanation of the story of Hagar and Sarah. In ad... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WE, BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS, ARE THE CHILDREN OF PROMISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The application of the lesson:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS THEN HE THAT WAS BORN AFTER THE FLESH PERSECUTED HIM THAT WAS BORN AFTER THE SPIRIT, EVEN SO IT IS NOW.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS, WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? CAST OUT THE BOND-WOMAN AND HER SON; FOR THE SON OF THE BOND-WOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREEWOMAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE BOND-WOMAN, BUT OF THE FREE. What the prophet had foretold found its realization in the Church of the New Testament. We Christians, we believers, who by virtue of the Gospel-promise are spiritual descendants of Abraham, are, after the manner of Isaac, c... [ Continue Reading ]