Now we, brethren - We who are Christians.
Are the children of the promise - We so far resemble Isaac, that there are great and precious promises made to us. We are not in the condition of Ishmael, to whom no promise was made.
GALATIANS 4:28 u`mei/j … evste,) {B} Influenced by the first person pronoun in ver. Galatians 4:26 (cf. also ver....
Verse 28. _NOW WE_] Who believe in the Lord Jesus, _are the_ _children of promise_-are the spiritual offspring of the Messiah, the seed of Abraham, in whom the promise stated that _all the_ _nations o...
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
GALATIANS 4:21 TO GALATIANS 5:1. The new thing he tries is an allegorising spiritualising application of an OT story. Slave-born Ishmael mocked (Genesis 21:10 *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the sl...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands written in it that Abraham had two sons; one was the son of the slave girl and...
AS ISAAC WAS. according to (Greek. _kata_, as Galatians 4:23) ISAAC, i.e. after the type of Isaac. Compare Romans 4:19,...
The previous verse is introduced parenthetically. The connexion is, -Jerusalem from above is our mother … and we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children, not according to the flesh, but of promise". The...
ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ … ἘΣΜΈΝ (cf. Galatians 4:31) Text. Rec. with אACDcKLP etc. ὑμεῖς … ἐστέ W.H. margin with BD*G. 28. Having shown in Galatians 4:23-27 that we as believers are like Isaac, children of the free wo...
21–5:1. _Another appeal, based upon the principles underlying the history of Hagar and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac. Christ set us free; stand fast therefore in this freedom_ (Galatians 4:21) You wis...
ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΣ (G1860). Эмфатический по положению и без артикля, _gen._ здесь подчеркивает качество (Fung)....
TEXT 4:28-31 (28) Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise, (29) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now. (30) How...
_VERSE 28. NOW WE, BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS, ARE THE CHILDREN OF PROMISE._ The Jews claimed to be the children of God because they were the children of Abraham. Jesus answered them, John 8:39-40, "If ye...
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. WE. So A C Delta 'Aleph ('), Vulgate. But B G f g, 'ye.' "We" better accords with ; . CHILDREN OF PROMISE - not children after the fle...
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...
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...
Conclusion and application. We believers stand in a relation to God's promise and favour analogous to the descendants of Sarah, while the Judaisers take the place of the Ishmaelites....
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...
Isaac was born because of God’s promise. Isaac was not born because of Abraham’s effort. The Christians in Galatia were like Isaac. They belonged to God’s family. This happened because of God’s promis...
(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further proof that freedom is the essential character of the...
WE. — The better reading appears to be _Ye._ Children of promise. — Children born in accomplishment of the promise. (See Romans 9:8, and Note.)...
CHAPTER 19 THE STORY OF HAGAR. Galatians 4:21 - Galatians 5:1 THE Apostle wishes that he could "change his voice" (Galatians 4:20). Indeed he has changed it more than once. "Any one who looks closel...
PATRIARCHAL HISTORY IS EMPLOYED TO ILLUSTRATE THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, WHO ARE THE PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM, BY JEWS WHO ARE HIS SEED AFTER THE FLESH. HAGAR AND HER SON, SARAH AND HER SON, FURNI...
“CHILDREN OF PROMISE” Galatians 4:21 In this allegory of Sarah and Hagar, it is important to notice that Paul is not dealing with the principle of evil within our hearts, but with the attempt to min...
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...
Now we, brethren, (g) as Isaac was, are the children of (h) promise. (g) After the manner of Isaac, who is the first begotten of the heavenly Jerusalem, as Israel is of the slavish synagogue. (h) Th...
(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) В¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that...
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...
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...
NOW WE, BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "you, brethren"; and so one of Stephens's copies. As the two women, Hagar and Sarah, might be, and are allegorized; so likewise their re...
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. Ver. 28. _Now we, brethren, as Isaac_] This the Jews to this day will not hear of, but call us _Mamzer Goi, _ bastardly Gentiles....
_Now_ That I may apply what has just been advanced to ourselves; _we, brethren_ Who believe, whether Jews or Gentiles; _as Isaac was_ Κατα Ισαακ, _after the manner of Isaac; are children of promise_ A...
WE; believers in Christ....
The application of the lesson:...
NOW WE, BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS, ARE THE CHILDREN OF PROMISE....
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...
TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. Notice Abraham's age: 75 - P...
28-31 The history thus explained is applied. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. If the privileges of all believers were so great, according to the new covenant...
Isaac was the promised seed, GENESIS 21:12 ROMANS 9:7: the apostle tells the Galatians that the believing Gentiles were _(as Isaac) the children of the promise._ Isaac being born, not by virtue of any...
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV As Paul does also testify, saying that we are children of Abraham because of the similarity of our faith, and the promise of inheritance.[77] Irenaeus Against Heres...
Galatians 4:28 Now G1161 we G2249 brethren G80 as G2596 Isaac G2464 are G2070 (G5748) children G5043 promise...
‘Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.' So Sarah, as mother of the child of promise, represents the covenant of promise, and the new heavenly Jerusalem which is ‘above'. This new J...
A LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW (GALATIANS 4:21). Paul now turns to the Old Testament for examples of what he is trying to say....
Galatians 4:28. BUT YE, BRETHREN, AS ISAAC WAS (OR, AFTER THE MANNER OF ISAAC), ARE CHILDREN OF PROMISE. Resumes the main subject; comp. Galatians 4:23. Christian believers are born, like Isaac, of th...
The Apostle resumes his argument for the superiority of the gospel over the law, and illustrates the difference of the two by an allegorical interpretation of the history of Sarah and Hagar, and their...
NOW WE (ημεις δε). Some MSS. have υμεις δε (now ye). In either case Paul means that Christians (Jews and Gentiles) are children of the promise as Isaac was (κατα Ισαακ, after the manner of Isaac)....
Galatians 4:28 The Promise Fulfilled for Time and Eternity. I. The promise of God to Abraham did more than give civilisation to men: it opened to them the doors of heaven. Great as have been the temp...
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...
NOW, YOU. "Even though you are not Abraham's descendants as we Jews are, yet like Isaac, who became their son by God's promise, you, my brothers, are God's children as a result of His promise! In this...
_Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not._ REJOICE, THOU BARREN I. The Church in her sadness. 1. The figure is drawn from the closest tie that nature knows, that of marriage relationship, and teache...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:21 Paul again emphasizes the difference between being a free child of God and being a slave to the law, sin, and false gods. Abraham’s son Ishmael—technically the firstbo...
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...
_Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise._ Since he was born of one barren through age not according to the flesh, but according to the promise of God. VER. 29. _He that was born a...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:24. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY.—Under the things spoken of—the two sons, with their contrast of parentage and position—there lies a spiritual meaning. G...
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...
Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:29; Galatians 4:23; Romans 4:13; Romans 9:8;...
Now we — Who believe, whether Jews or Gentiles. Are children of the promise — Not born in a natural way, but by the supernatural power of God. And as such we are heirs of the promise made to believing...
In the former of these two verses the apostle applies the foregoing allegory, or typical history of Sarah and Hagar, thus: "As, says he, Isaac by virtue of the promise, being born of the free-woman, w...