My dear children! From the deep concern of Galatians 4:18, Paul narrows it down by speaking as a parent. He had brought the Galatians into the world as spiritual children, and his claim on them is greater than any new teacher could have! Until Christ's nature. Their eternal destiny depends on their developing the knowledge, spirit, and qualities of Christ in themselves. This does not contradict salvation by faith, as James 2:22 shows.
Verse 19. _MY LITTLE CHILDREN_] τεκνια μου. My _beloved_ _children_. As their conversion to God had been the fruit of much labour, prayers, and tears, so he felt them as his children, and peculiarly...
MY LITTLE CHILDREN - The language of tender affection, such as a parent would use toward his own offspring; see the note at 1 Corinthians 4:15; compare Matthew 18:3; Joh 13:33;...
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 affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, and begging them not to desert his faith. In the past,...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, because I became as you are. I have no complaints against the way that once you treated me. You know that it was because I was ill that I first preached the go...
LITTLE CHILDREN. Greek. _teknion_. App-108. Only occurance: by Paul. Compare 1 John 2:1, &c. TRAVAIL, &c. Greek. _Odino_. Here, Galatians 4:27; Revelation 12:2, CHRIST. App-98....
Personal Appeal The Apostle now makes a personal appeal, marked by deep affection and earnestness. "Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, free yourselves from the trammels of the ceremonial law an...
In the preceding verse the metaphor seems to be taken from the affection of husband and wife (see 1 Corinthians 11:2-3). Now it is changed to that from a mother in travail. _My little children_ A form...
12–20. _A further appeal, based on his own behaviour among them, and their treatment of him_ (Galatians 4:12) Become, as I became, free from the Law, like you Gentiles, as you saw me when I was among...
ΤΕΚΝΊΑ אcACDbc vulg. (filioli) Text. Rec. only here in St Paul’s writings. τέκνα א*BD*G. ΜΈΧΡΙΣ ΟΥ̓͂ א*B 37. 116. ἄχρις οὖ Text. Rec. with אcACD etc.; cf. Galatians 3:19 W.H. marg. 19. ΤΕΚΝΊΑ ΜΟΥ. τέ...
ΠΆΛΙΝ (G3825) снова, ΏΔΊΝΩ _praes. ind. act._ (G5605) страдать от родовых схваток. О родах и образе деторождения в древнем мире _см._ RAC, 9:37-217. ΜΈΧΡΙΣ (G3360) пока не. ΜΟΡΦΩΘΉ _aor._ conj_ _pa...
DISCOURSE: 2074 A MINISTER’S CHIEF WISH FOR HIS PEOPLE Galatians 4:19. _My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and t...
TEXT 4:16-20 (16) So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? (17) They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. (18) But it is good to...
_ VERSE 19. MY LITTLE CHILDREN, OF WHOM I TRAVAIL IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU._ With every single word the Apostle seeks to regain the confidence of the Galatians. He now calls them l...
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, MY LITTLE CHILDREN (; ; ). My relation to you is not merely that of one zealously courting you ...
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...
4:19 children, (c-2) _ Teknia_ , as John 13:33 ....
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...
I TRAVAIL IN BIRTH AGAIN] RV 'I am again in travail.' In his anxiety and distress he would reconvert them to Christ....
Paul really cared about the Christians. His intentions were always good. When a mother has a baby, she feels a lot of pain. She suffers a lot because it is a difficult time for her. But she must wait...
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...
MY LITTLE CHILDREN. — The form is a diminutive, not found elsewhere in the writings of St. Paul, though common in St. John. It is used to heighten the tenderness of the appeal. The simple form, howeve...
(17-20) All this eagerness to court your favour springs from an interested motive: they wish to make a sect of you, in which they shall be masters and courted in their turn. Not but that it is a good...
CHAPTER 18 PAUL'S ENTREATY. Galatians 4:12 THE reproof of the last paragraph ended in a sigh. To see Christ's freemen relapsing into bondage, and exchanging their Divine birthright for childish toys...
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE APOSTLE AT THE CHANGED FEELING OF HIS CONVERTS; REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST; PATHETIC APPEAL TO OLD AFFECTION; PROTEST AGAINST PRESENT ESTRANGEMENT....
τεκνία μου. This is an accusative in apposition to ὑμᾶς, not a vocative introducing a fresh appeal. It is clear from the addition of the connecting particle δέ after ἤθελον that that word begins a new...
TRUTHFUL AND DEVOTED DEALING Galatians 4:12 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to trust in ceremonies, rites, and a prescribed routine! Inevita...
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...
He tells them this change come from the false teachers among them, who with a false zeal would exclude them from a friendship and a submission to St. Paul, and deprive them again of that Christian lib...
(19) В¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I pause over this verse, not so much to remark the tender reproof of Paul, to the Galatians, though his hear...
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...
_FAITH AND CHARACTER_ ‘Until Christ be formed in you.’ Galatians 4:19 Why not Christianity without Christ? Ah, we are here face to face with a notable distinction. Of no other system, religious or...
19._My little children_. The word _children _is still softer and more affectionate than brethren; and the diminutive,_little children_, is an expression, not of contempt, but of endearment, though, at...
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...
MY LITTLE CHILDREN,.... A soft and tender way of speaking, used by Christ to his disciples, and frequently by that affectionate and beloved disciple, John. It is expressive of the apostle's strong lov...
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, Ver. 19. _Till Christ be formed_] That you may seek for salvation by him alone. Together with the word there goes f...
_My little children_ Converted to the faith by my ministry. He speaks as a parent, both with authority and the most tender sympathy toward weak and sickly children: _of whom I travail in birth again_...
UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU; till the new man that lives by faith in Christ be fully formed in you, so that you shall no longer be in you, so that you shall no longer be in danger of being drawn awa...
MY LITTLE CHILDREN, OF WHOM I TRAVAIL IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU....
An urgent appeal to an Old Testament example:...
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...
MY LITTLE CHILDREN, FOR WHOM I LABOR IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU, Children = term of endearment, love, affection Not - childish, immature...
19,20 The Galatians were ready to account the apostle their enemy, but he assures them he was their friend; he had the feelings of a parent toward them. He was in doubt as to their state, and was anxi...
By calling them LITTLE CHILDREN, he both hints to them that he was their spiritual father, and had begotten them to Christ; and that they were as yet weak in the faith, not grown men, but as yet littl...
My little children [1 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:1; 1 John 2:1], _of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you_...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quare Paulus quoque scribens ad Galatas, dicit: "Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur in vobis Christus."[187] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V...
Galatians 4:19 My G3450 children G5040 whom G3739 birth G5605 (G5719) again G3825 until G891 G3739 Christ...
‘My little children, for whom I am again suffering birth pains until Christ be formed in you.' Paul is now almost in anguish, and he presses home his plea tenderly and with passion. They are again pu...
PAUL NOW REVEALS HIS CONCERN AND LONGING FOR THEM (GALATIANS 4:12). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what they are losing by their foolishness....
2. _Affectionate Appeal to the Galatians._ Paul interrupts his argument for a moment by an affectionate appeal to the feelings of the Galatians. He reminds them of their former enthusiastic love and v...
Galatians 4:19-20. Affectionate appeal to the feelings of the Galatians. Galatians 4:19 may be connected with Galatians 4:18, and a comma put after ‘you,' or with...
I AM IN TRAVAIL (ωδινω). I am in birth pangs. Old word for this powerful picture of pain. In N.T. only here, verse Galatians 4:27; Revelation 12:2.UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU (μεχρις ου μορφωθη...
LITTLE CHILDREN The allegory (Galatians 4:22) is addressed to justified but immature believers (compare (1 Corinthians 3:1); (1 Corinthians 3:2) who, under the influence of legalistic teachers
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....
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
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...
_Until Christ be formed in you._ THE GROWTH OF CHRIST IN US Now, although the apostle nowhere carries out this into a full allegory, yet it may be clearly seen that this thought dwelt in his mind, vi...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:19 The Galatians, like LITTLE CHILDREN, have not been growing. Paul’s deep concern for them is like the pain of CHILDBIRTH....
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:12 As in Galatians 3:1, Paul reminds the Galatians of what happened when they heard the gospel. He also contrasts his own ministry with that of the false teachers.
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...
_My little children._ I begat you to Christ by the Gospel, and now that you have left Him for Judaism, I travail in birth of you again, till you learn to look to Christ for grace and justification, an...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:12. BE AS I AM, FOR I AM AS YE ARE.—Paul had become as a Gentile, though he was once a passionate Jew. Their natural leanings towards Judaism they ought t...
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 Corinthians 4:14; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1 John 5:21; 1 Timothy 1:2
My little children [τ ε κ ν ι α μ ο υ]. Only here in Paul, but often in John. See John 13:33; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1 John 2:28;...
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...
My little children — He speaks as a parent, both with authority, and the most tender sympathy, toward weak and sickly children. Of whom I travail in birth again — As I did before, Galatians 4:13, in v...
Observe here, 1. The endearing title which the apostle gives to the apostatizing Galatians: he calls them CHILDREN, LITTLE CHILDREN, HIS LITTLE CHILDREN--MY LITTLE CHILDREN. Note, he calls them CHILDR...