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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 4 - Introduction

* The folly of returning to legal observances for justification. (1-7) The happy change made in the Gentile believers. (8-11) The apostle reasons against following false teachers. (12-18) He expresses his earnest concern for them. (19,20) And then explains the difference between what is to be expected from the law, and from the gospel. (21-31)

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See also Galatians 4 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The design of this chapter is, to show the effect of being under the Law, and the inconsistency of that kind of bondage or servitude with the freedom which is vouchsafed to the true children of God by...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Continuation of the argument. Galatians 4:1. The Law a necessary preparation for the Gospel. Sonship through redemption attested by the Spirit. Galatians 4:8. Danger of going back to the observance o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _WE WERE UNDER THE LAW TILL CHRIST CAME, AS THE HEIR IS UNDER HIS GUARDIAN TILL HE BE OF AGE. BUT CHRIST FREED US FROM THE LAW: THEREFORE WE ARE SERVANTS NO LONGER TO IT. HE REMEMBERETH THEIR GOOD-WIL...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    QUESTIONS ON GALATAINS, CHAPTER FOUR True - False ______ 1. Paul states that the heir, when a child, is no different than a servant until the time the father appoints. Galatians 4:1 ______ 2. Th...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    _ VERSE 1. NOW I SAY, THAT THE HEIR, AS LONG AS HE IS A CHILD, DIFFERETH NOTHING FROM A SERVANT, THOUGH HE BE LORD OF ALL;_...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:4 world, (a-18) _ Aion_ . 'age,' 'course of this world.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IV. (1-31) The present chapter continues the argument of the last. St. Paul had been reproaching the Galatians with their relapse. They had fallen back from a spiritual system to a material system; fr...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO GALATIANS 4 In this chapter the apostle discourses concerning the abrogation of the ceremonial law, under which the Old Testament saints were, being as children under tutors; blames t...

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