Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Galatians 4:5
To redeem those under the law — From the curse of it, and from that low, servile state. That we — Jews who believe. Might receive the adoption — All the privileges of adult sons.
To redeem those under the law — From the curse of it, and from that low, servile state. That we — Jews who believe. Might receive the adoption — All the privileges of adult sons.
Verse Galatians 4:5. _TO REDEEM THEM_] εξαγοραση. To _pay down a price_ for them, and thus _buy them off_ from the necessity of observing circumcision, offering _brute sacrifices_, performing differen...
TO REDEEM THEM - By his death as an atoning sacrifice; see the note at Galatians 3:13. THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW - Sinners, who had violated the Law, and who were exposed to its dread penalty. THA...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
An heir may be either one who is entering on his inheritance or one who is hereafter to enter on it. In a sense, the Christian inheritance is always future; heaven lies ahead. And the NT, with its str...
This is what I mean--so long as the heir is an infant there is no difference between him and a slave, although he is owner of everything, but he is under the control of stewards and overseers until th...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
TO. In order that (Greek. _hina)_ He might. REDEEM. Greek. _exagorazo_ See Galatians 3:13. THAT. Greek. _hina_., as above. RECEIVE. receive in full. Greek. _apolambano_. See Romans 1:27. ADOPTION O...
Born under the law, our Blessed Lord not only in His most holy life fulfilled all the commandments of the law, but in His death He satisfied its conditions by bearing its penalty, and redeeming us fro...
23–4:7. _The contrast between our former state of pupillage under the Law, and our present state in Christ, full sonship_ This is brought out under two aspects: I. Galatians 3:23-29. The preparative c...
ἽΝΑ. Probably to be taken with the whole of the preceding words from ἐξαπέστειλεν, of which indeed γενόμ.… νόμον are in a sense epexegetic. ΤΟῪΣ ὙΠῸ ΝΌΜΟΝ, i.e. Jews, and, if them, much more others wh...
ΕΞΑΓΌΡΑΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΞΑΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G1805) выкупать на рынке, искупать (_см._ Galatians 3:13). _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΥΙΟΘΕΣΊΑ (G5206) усыновление (DNP, 1:12224; DPL, 15-18; ABD, 1...
DISCOURSE: 2070 THE TIME AND MANNER OF CHRIST’S INCARNATION Galatians 4:4. _When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem, them that we...
GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON,— These verses should be read and understood thus: _God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,_ (_made under the law, to redeem them that are under the law_) that we might receive...
TEXT 4:5-7 (5) that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (6) And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying...
_VERSE 5. THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS._ Paul still has for his text Genesis 22:18, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." In the course of his Epistle he calls thi...
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; NOW I SAY - a phrase introducing a continued explanatory argument (Ellicott). God's s...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
4:5 sonship. (i-12) Or 'adoption.' It is receiving the position of sonship as a gift. 'Receive' has an active force here. Jew and Gentile received it as a gift from another, even freely from God; for...
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
REDEEM] i.e. save us from our bondage in sin under the Law, and introduce us into full sonship to God. UNDER THE LAW] and therefore bound to obey it, and yet guilty of infringing it. ADOPTION] Redempt...
‘Children’ refers to adult sons (verse 1). Jesus came to free people. He could free the *Jews who had to obey God’s laws. And he could free the *Gentiles from the religions that controlled them. God c...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
TO REDEEM THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW. — To redeem, or ransom, at the price of His death, both Jew and Gentile at once from the condemnation under which the law, to which they were severally subject,...
(1-7) A further description, continued from the last chapter, of the state of wardship, with its restraints and servitude, compared with that Christian freedom — the freedom of sons — to which the Gal...
CHAPTER 16 THE HEIR'S COMING OF AGE. Galatians 4:1 THE main thesis of the Epistle is now established. Gentile Christians, Paul has shown, are in the true Abrahamic succession of faith. And this devo...
ἵνα … ἵνα. These two final clauses couple together two gracious purposes of God in the scheme of redemption, (1) the obliteration of a guilty past, (2) divine adoption with the blessings which sonship...
THERE WERE IN THE GENTILE WORLD ALSO BEFORE CHRIST CHILDREN OF GOD IN BONDAGE TO HUMAN RULE, THAT KNEW NOT THE UNSEEN FATHER IN HEAVEN WHO WAS ORDERING THEIR LIVES. THEY WERE LIKE ORPHAN CHILDREN, WHO...
LIVE AS SONS, NOT AS BONDMEN Galatians 4:1 The Apostle often uses the word _elements_ or “rudiments,” Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9;...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the (e) adoption of sons. (e) The adoption of the sons of God is from everlasting, but is revealed and shown in the time appointed for it...
(4) But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (5) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (6)...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
_CHRIST’S MISSION_ ‘But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption...
5._That we might receive the adoption_. The fathers, under the Old Testament, were certain of their adoption, but did not so fully as yet enjoy their privilege. _Adoption_, like the phrase, “the redem...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
TO REDEEM THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW,.... By whom are meant chiefly the Jews, who are elsewhere represented as in and under the law, in distinction from the Gentiles who were without it; see Romans...
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Ver. 5. _To redeem them, &c._] To buy them off, who were in worse case than the Turkish galley slaves chained to an...
_But when the fulness of time_ Appointed by the Father, (Galatians 4:2,) and marked out by the predictions of the prophets for the accomplishment of this great event; _was come_ And we were arrived at...
RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS; pass from the condition and spirit of servants to the privileges and filial spirit of sons, in a state not of minority and servitude, but of manhood and freedom....
THE SONSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. The believers sons and heirs through Christ:...
TO REDEEM THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS....
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
1-7 The apostle deals plainly with those who urged the law of Moses together with the gospel of Christ, and endeavoured to bring believers under its bondage. They could not fully understand the meani...
This makes it appear, that Christ's being _under the law_ must be understood as well of the moral as of the ceremonial law, that is, subject to the precepts of it, as well as to the curse of it; for i...
that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. [In this paragraph Paul resumes the metaphor begun at Galatians 3:24; but from a slightly different point...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ever done to bring about the fulness of time, or to wait patiently its completion? If nothing, what an impotent state to have to wait for the Creator's time, in serv...
Galatians 4:5 to G2443 redeem G1805 (G5661) under G5259 law G3551 that G2443 receive G618 (G5632) sons...
‘But when the fullness of the time came God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.' But...
IF WE ARE HIS WE ARE NOW ALL FULL SONS OF GOD (GALATIANS 4:1). Now he comes to the very heart of the matter, and that is that in Jesus Christ, all who are His now become full grown, adult, children o...
Galatians 4:5. TO REDEEM, to buy off from the curse and the slavery of the law. This he did by His perfect obedience and the bestowal of the spirit of love and freedom. RECEIVE, not _recover,_ for t...
_The State of Adoption contrasted with the State of Slavery under the Law_. The Apostle proceeds to give a fuller exposition of the divine sonship and heirship, ch. Galatians 3:29, and shows that the...
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
TO REDEEM. "Since both Jews and Gentiles were held slaves by the ruling spirits of the universe, God sent his own Son as a human being to BUY FREEDOM for us, so that we might become God's sons and rec...
_But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son._ CHRIST’S ADVENT IN THE FULNESS OF TIME The question has often been asked, Why did not Christ come sooner? Why were patriarchs, kin...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:5 Paul’s ADOPTION imagery probably picks up the OT concept of God calling Israel his “son.” He combines this with the Roman notion of adopting a son (who was usually alre...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:1. THE HEIR, AS LONG AS HE IS A CHILD.—An infant, one under age. DIFFERETH NOTHING FROM A SERVANT.—A slave. He is not at his own disposal. He could not pe...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 3:18; Acts 20:28; Colossians 1:13; Ephesians
To redeem [ι ν α ε ξ α γ ο ρ α σ η]. See on chapter Galatians 3:13. To redeem from the dominion and curse of the law. The means of redemption is not mentioned. It cannot be merely the birth of Christ...
THE CROSS AND ITS OBJECTIVES Galatians 3:10; Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have...
TURNING UNTO LAW-WORKS Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvation by law...