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Verse 8. _WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD_] Though it is evident, from the
complexion of the whole of this epistle, that the great body of the
Christians in the Churches of Galatia were converts from among the...
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HOWBEIT - But, ἀλλὰ alla. The address in this verse and the
following is evidently to the portion of the Galatians who had been
pagan. This is probably indicated by the particle ἀλλὰ alla,
but den...
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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
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The state of the Galatians, while heathen, was similar but worse. They
had not been heirs in a state of temporary slavery, but frankly slaves
to the mere element-spirits, those undivine gods they wors...
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THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
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There was a time when you did not know God, and when you were slaves
to gods who are no gods at all; but now that you know God or rather
now that god knows you--how can you turn back again to the weak...
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KNEW. Greek. _oida_, App-132.
NOT. Greek. _ou_. App-105.
DID SERVICE. Greek. _douleuo_. App-190. Compare Galatians 4:3.
UNTO. to.
NO. not. Greek. _me_. App-105.
GODS. App-98,...
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Danger of going back to the observance of the legal ceremonial. 8 11
8. Notwithstanding, is it so that you who once were idolaters and
ignorant of God, yet after having been brought to the knowledge...
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ΕΊΔΌΤΕΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать
(_см._ Galatians 2:16).
ΈΔΟΥΛΕΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G1398)
быть порабощенным,
ΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Dat._
ука...
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YE DID SERVICE UNTO THEM, &C.— _Ye were in bondage unto those
which,_ &c. See on Galatians 4:1. It is evident here, that though
these Christians had, before their conversion, been idolatrous
Gentiles,...
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TEXT 4:8-11
(8) Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them
that by nature are no gods: (9) but now that ye have come to know God,
or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back...
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_VERSES 8, 9. HOWBEIT THEN, WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD, YE DID SERVICE UNTO
THEM WHICH BY NATURE ARE NO GODS. BUT NOW, AFTER THAT YE HAVE KNOWN
GOD, OR RATHER ARE KNOWN OF GOD, HOW TURN YE AGAIN TO THE WEAK...
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods.
HOWBEIT - contrast of their former with their present state. Appeal
not to turn back from their privileges...
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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...
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4:8 gods; (l-18) As the Hebrew in 2 Chronicles 13:9 , 'what is not
God.'...
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HOWBEIT THEN] RV 'At that time,' when they were yet unconverted
heathen. NO GODS] cp. 1 Corinthians 8:5; 1 Corinthians 10:20 the
so-called divinities of the heathen....
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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...
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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...
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The *Gentiles did not understand anything about God until they became
Christians. They were like slaves because they could not trust the
real God. Instead, they obeyed their false religions. They used...
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(8-11) The results of the foregoing argument are now turned against
the Galatians. In their old heathen state they had been in bondage to
gods that were no gods. From this bondage they had been delive...
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THEM WHICH BY NATURE ARE NO GODS. — The gods of the heathen are
called by St. Paul “devils.” (See 1 Corinthians 10:20 : “The
things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils, and not
to Go...
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CHAPTER 17
THE RETURN TO BONDAGE.
Galatians 4:8
"Sons of God, whom He made His heirs in Christ, how are you turning
back to legal bondage!" Such is the appeal with which the Apostle
follows up his a...
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BUT THOUGH IN TIME PAST WHEN YOU KNEW NOT GOD YOU WERE SLAVES TO FALSE
GODS, HOW CAN YOU, NOW THAT YOU HAVE LEARNT TO KNOW HIM, OR RATHER
HAVE BEEN RECOGNISED BY HIM, TURN BACK TO THE LESSONS OF CHILD...
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LIVE AS SONS, NOT AS BONDMEN
Galatians 4:1
The Apostle often uses the word _elements_ or “rudiments,”
Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9;...
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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...
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(4) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which
by nature are no gods.
(4) He applies the former doctrine to the Galatians, with a special
rebuke: for in comparison with them,...
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You served them, who by nature are no gods. These words are to be
understood of the converts, who had been Gentiles. --- Known of God.
That is, approved and loved by him. (Witham) --- The language of...
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(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye
knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods....
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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...
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8._But when ye as yet knew not God. _This is not intended as an
additional argument; and indeed he had already proved his point so
fully, that no doubt remained, and the rebuke which was now to be
adm...
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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...
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HOWBEIT THEN, WHEN YE KNOW NOT GOD,.... Whilst in Gentilism, and in a
state of unregeneracy, they had no true knowledge of God; though they
might know by the light of nature, and works of creation, th...
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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods.
Ver. 8. _Ye did service_] Here all religious service done to any but
God is manifestly condemned as impious,...
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_Howbeit_ Αλλα, _but_, or _however_, that ye Gentiles may not
foolishly reject, neglect, or forfeit your privileges, as the sons of
God, you ought to remember what your condition was while under _the...
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YE; the gentile part of the church.
NO GODS; idols....
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The foolishness of backsliding from this truth:...
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HOWBEIT, THEN, WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD, YE DID SERVICE UNTO THEM WHICH BY
NATURE ARE NO GODS....
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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...
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BUT THEN, INDEED, WHEN YOU DID NOT KNOW GOD, YOU SERVED THOSE WHICH BY
NATURE ARE NOT GODS.
Nature = long standing practice, habit, standard accepted custom
NOW: You know God. And, God knows you. Wh...
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8-11 The happy change whereby the Galatians were turned from idols to
the living God, and through Christ had received the adoption of sons,
was the effect of his free and rich grace; they were laid u...
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WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD, as he is, or as ye ought to have known him, or
as, since, you have known him; for even the heathen have some
knowledge of God, ROMANS 1:21. YE DID SERVICE UNTO THEM WHICH BY
NATU...
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Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that
by nature are no gods...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II
and "those which are not gods,"[45]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
And the Apostle Paul also, saying, "For though ye have served them
which are no gods; ye now...
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Galatians 4:8 But G235 then G5119 indeed G3303 did G1492 not G3756
know G1492 (G5761) God G2316 served...
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IS IT NOT THEN FOOLISH TO TRY TO TURN BACK TO THEIR FORMER STATE?
(GALATIANS 4:8).
Granted then that we have received these great privileges from God,
would it not be foolish to revert back to being...
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‘But at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who
by nature were no gods. But now that you have come to know God, or
rather to be known of God, how do you turn back again to the wea...
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Galatians 4:8. Here the Apostle evidently addresses Gentile
Christians. But some may have been before their conversion proselytes
to Judaism.
But formerly (before your conversion, comp. Galatians 4:7)...
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_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...
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TO THEM WHICH BY NATURE ARE NOT GODS
(τοις φυσε μη ουσ θεοις). In 1 Corinthians 10:20 he
terms them "demons," the "so-called gods" (1 Corinthians 8:5),
worshipping images made by hands (Acts 17:29)...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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IN ME PAST. "Don't be foolish enough to give up your favored status as
God's sons!!! Remember what you used to be when you did not know God!
Remember when you were slaves to idols and the spirits of d...
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_Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods._
THE THREE ESTATES OF THE GALATIAN CHURCH
I. Before their conversion.
1. Ignorance of God. There is a twof...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:8 The Galatians are in danger of
forfeiting sonship and abandoning the true God. They risk returning to
false gods (v. Galatians 4:8) and to worldly ways of life (vv....
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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...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Galatians 4:9. HOW TURN YE AGAIN [anew]?—Making a new beginning in
religion, lapsing from Christianity just in as far as they embrace
legalism. TO THE WEAK AND BEGGARL...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1
Corinthians 12:2;...
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Over against their filial freedom in Christ, Paul sets their lapse
into subjection to the elements of the world (verse 3).
Knew not God. See on 2 Thessalonians 1:8.
Ye did service [ε δ ο υ λ ε υ σ α...
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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...
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Indeed then when ye knew not God, ye served them that by nature —
That is, in reality. Are no gods — And so were under a far worse
bondage than even that of the Jews. For they did serve the true God,...
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Our apostle having proved sufficiently the believing Christians
freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law; next endeavours to
convince the Galatians how absurd and unreasonable it was for them
volun...