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Galatians 4:4
The right time. "When the time of preparation was completed, at the right time, God sent his own Son! He sent him from heaven into our own world!"
The right time. "When the time of preparation was completed, at the right time, God sent his own Son! He sent him from heaven into our own world!"
Verse Galatians 4:4. _WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME_] The time which God in his infinite wisdom counted best; in which all his counsels were _filled up_; and the time which his Spirit, by the...
BUT WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME - The full time appointed by the Father; the completion (filling up, πλήρωμα plērōma,) of the designated period for the coming of the Messiah; see the Isai...
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)...
FULNESS. Greek. _pleroma_. ' First occurance: Matthew 9:16. WAS COME. came. GOD. App-98. SENT FORTH. Greek. _exapostello_ App-174. SON. Greek. _huios_ App-108. MADE. See John 1:14 OF. Greek. _ek...
_the fulness of the time_ The completion of the time of the world's nonage, corresponding to -the time appointed by the father" in Galatians 4:3. God's appointed time had come, and man's need of redem...
ὍΤΕ ΔῈ ἮΛΘΕΝ κ.τ.λ. The coming of Christ marks the beginning of the change in our personal relation to God. ΤῸ ΠΛΉΡΩΜΑ ΤΟΥ͂ ΧΡΌΝΟΥ. On πλήρωμα see Colossians 1:19 note. The full phrase occurs here onl...
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...
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΠΛΉΡΩΜΑ (G4138) то, что наполнено, полнота. Это относится ко времени, назначенному отцом (_см._ Galatians 4:2). Бог приготовил целый мир к приходу...
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...
C. ILLUSTRATION AS TO WHY THE LAW PRECEDED AND MUST GIVE WAY TO THE GOSPEL. Galatians 4:1-31 1. Childhood and manhood. Galatians 4:1-11 TEXT 4:1-4 (1) But I say that so long as the heir is a child...
_VERSES 4, 5. BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS 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._ This passage furthermore declares that C...
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...
4:4 come (h-15) Or 'born,' but the word ( _ ginomai_ ) means primarily 'to begin existence,' 'to become,' or 'to happen.'...
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...
Cp. Galatians 3:19; Galatians 3:24; Romans 5:20; Romans 5:21. MADE] RV 'born'; entering fully into our human lot....
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...
God’s plan was perfect. He decided how he would free people from their *sins. And he decided when he would send Jesus into this world. Luke 1:26-38 describes how this happened. Jesus was a real man. H...
(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...
THE FULNESS OF THE TIME. — That which was predetermined in the counsels of God as the right and proper time when the whole course of previous preparation both for Jew and Gentile was complete. Here we...
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...
When God saw that the world was ripe for the Advent, He sent forth His Son. Until generations of mankind had learnt through years of social training to control some of the animal instincts of their lo...
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...
(2) But when the (c) fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a (d) woman, made under the law, (2) He utters and declares many things at once, that is, that this tutorship was en...
_The fulness of the time. That is, the time decreed by Divine Providence. --- God sent his Son made of a woman, who took a true human body of his virgin Mother. --- Under the law, as he was man, becau...
(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...
4._When the fullness of the time was come_. He proceeds with the comparison which he had adduced, and applies to his purpose the expression which has already occurred, “the time appointed by the Fathe...
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...
BUT WHEN THE FULNESS OF TIME WAS COME,.... The time agreed and fixed upon between God and his Son from all eternity, in the council and covenant of peace, when the Son of God should assume human natur...
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, Ver. 4. _But when the fulness of the time_] This answers to that time appointed of the Father,...
_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...
BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, MADE OF A WOMAN, MADE UNDER THE LAW,...
THE SONSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. The believers sons and heirs through Christ:...
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...
BUT WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME; THE TIME, which answered the time appointed of the earthly father, mentioned GALATIANS 4:2; when that time came in which God had designed to bring his people...
but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus As long then as the former time[46] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again, in his Epistle to the Galatians, he says: "But when the fulness of time had come,...
Galatians 4:4 But G1161 when G3753 fullness G4138 time G5550 come G2064 (G5627) God G2316 forth G1821 ...
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...
‘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...
_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 4:4. WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE TIME CAME, _i.e.,_ when the period appointed by the Father (Galatians 4:2) till the coming of Christ and the age of manhood was filled up or completed. This peri...
THE FULNESS OF THE TIME (το πληρωμα του χρονου). Old word from πληροω, to fill. Here the complement of the preceding time as in Ephesians 1:10. Some examples in the papyri in the sense of complement...
Galatians 4:4 Christ Obedient to the Law. I. Christ's obedience to the law was not a matter of course, following upon His incarnation. Scripture everywhere separates the two, making His obedience an...
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...
_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 4:4 WHEN THE FULLNESS OF TIME HAD COME. God sent his Son at the right moment in human history. God directed world events and prepared peoples and nations for Christ, and fo...
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 John 4:10; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 4:9; 1 Timothy 3:16;...
Fullness of the time [τ ο π λ η ρ ω μ α τ ο υ χ ρ ο ν ο υ]. The moment by which the whole pre - messianic period was completed. Comp. Ephesians 1:10. It answers to the time appointed of the Father (ve...
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...
But when the fulness of the time — Appointed by the Father, Galatians 4:2. Was come, God sent forth — From his own bosom. His Son, miraculously made of the substance of a woman — A virgin, without the...
That is, "When the fulness of time was come, which God the Father had appointed for the finishing of the legal dispensation, and for the abolishing the ceremonial rites, God sent forth from himself th...