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CHAPTER IV.
_The apostle shows that, as an heir in nonage is under tutors_
_and guardians, so were the Galatians while under the law; and,_
_as the heir when he comes of age is no longer under guar...
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NOW I SAY - He had before said Galatians 3:24 that while they were
under the Law they were in a state of minority. This sentiment he
proceeds further to illustrate by showing the true condition of one...
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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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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...
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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...
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THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
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AS LONG. for (Greek. _epi_. App-104.) such time. child. Greek.
_nepios_. App-108.
NOTHING. Greek. _oudeis_.
SERVANT. Greek. _doulos_. App-190.
LORD. owner. Greek. _kurios_. App-98....
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The word -heirs" at the end of the preceding chapter suggests another
illustration. In human affairs the condition of a minor is antecedent
to the enjoyment of the liberty and the civil rights which a...
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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...
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ΛΈΓΩ ΔῈ. Elsewhere in St Paul’s writings only in Galatians
5:16, where, as here, it introduces a sharp contrast; here to heirship
(Galatians 3:29) and what it seems to imply; there to a wrong means of...
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NOW I SAY, THAT THE HEIR, &C.— The Apostle goes on farther to prove,
that the law was not against the promise, in that the child is not
disinherited by being under tutors: But his chief design is, to...
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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...
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_ VERSE 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;_...
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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...
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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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THE HEIR] is, of course, a son, as Galatians 4:2 shows. A CHILD] i.e.
under age; a minor.
DIFFERETH NOTHING] as respects the control of his destined
possessions, though, in prospect, lord of all....
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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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Each society has a time for a young boy to become a man. In Paul’s
days, it was a very important event. As soon as a boy became a man, he
had full legal rights. Until that time, other people had to ma...
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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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NOW I SAY. — This phrase introduces a further and fuller explanation
of what is involved in the state of nonage, as compared with that of
adult freedom.
A CHILD — _i.e.,_ an infant, a minor; though t...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Now (1) I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
(1) He declares by another twofold similitude, that which he said
before concernin...
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By the child, in this place, the apostles understands all the Jewish
people, who, as long as they were under the childhood of the law, were
subject to numerous restrictions, although they were the fav...
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CONTENTS
The Apostle here represents the Church as in a State of Childhood,
While under the Law: and as having attained Manhood, in Christ. Grace,
and Nature, illustrated by an Allegory....
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(1) В¶ Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; (2) But is under
tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. (3)...
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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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1._Now I say_. Whoever made the division into chapters has improperly
separated this paragraph from the preceding, as it is nothing else
than the concluding section, ( ἐπεξεργασία,) in which
Paul expl...
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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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NOW I SAY,.... To illustrate what he had said of the law's being a
schoolmaster to the Jews until the coming of Christ, and then ceasing
as such, he proposes the case of an heir during his minority, t...
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Now I say, _That_ the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Ver. 1. _Differeth nothing from a servant_] In allusion whereunto
there is written up...
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The apostle, having established the consolatory doctrine that
believers, in every age and country of the world, are heirs of the
promises made to Abraham and to his seed, goes on in this chapter to
an...
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In carrying out his argument against Judaism, the apostle compares the
covenant people, before the coming of Christ, to an heir under age
kept in a state of servitude.
DIFFERETH NOTHING; as to the co...
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THE SONSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW.
The believers sons and heirs through Christ:...
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NOW I SAY, THAT THE HEIR, AS LONG AS HE IS A CHILD, DIFFERS NOTHING
FROM A SERVANT, THOUGH HE BE LORD OF ALL,...
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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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NOW I SAY _THAT_ THE HEIR, AS LONG AS HE IS A CHILD, DOES NOT DIFFER
AT ALL FROM A SLAVE, THOUGH HE IS MASTER OF ALL,
We do not enter God's family by adoption. We enter by being born
again. Adoption...
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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...
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GALATIANS CHAPTER 4 GALATIANS 4:1 The Jews were for a while held under
the law, as an heir under his guardian till he be of age. GALATIANS
4:4 But Christ came to redeem those that were under the law,...
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But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing
from a bondservant though he is lord of all...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I "[73]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I
And the child, though heir, differeth nothing from a servant, till the
time appointed of the father."[135]
Or...
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Galatians 4:1 Now G1161 say G3004 (G5719) heir G2818 as G1909 G3745
G5550 is G2076 ...
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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...
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‘But I say that as long as the heir is a child he does not differ in
any way from a bondservant, even though he may be lord of all, but is
under guardians and stewards until the term appointed by the...
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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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Galatians 4:1. BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY IF THIS, THAT TO LONG AS THE HEIR
IS AN INFANT (A MINOR), HE DIFFERETH NOTHING FROM A SLAVE, THOUGH HE
IS LORD OF ALL, owner of the whole patrimony or inheritance b...
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SO LONG AS
(εφ' οσον χρονον). "For how long a time," incorporation of
the antecedent (χρονον) into the relative clause.THE HEIR
(ο κληρονομος). Old word (κληρος, lot, νεμομα,
to possess). Illustr...
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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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THE SON. Since God intended all along to put men right with himself
through faith in Christ, two questions arise: (1) Why didn't Christ
come immediately when our first parents sinned? (2) Why did God...
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_Now this I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant._
READING LIFE
There is nothing final in the character of this world. But all betrays
infancy. Everything is...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:1 When a son is too young to receive
his inheritance, he has no more status than a SLAVE. (On Roman slaves,
or bondservants, see note on 1 Cor. 7:21.) This was the situat...
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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 4:1. 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...
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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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2 Kings 10:1; 2 Kings 10:2; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Kings 12:2; Galatians 4:
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Now I say [λ ε γ ω δ ε]. Introducing a continued, explanatory
discussion. Comp. chapter Galatians 3:17; Galatians 5:16; 1
Corinthians 1:12.
The heir [ο κ λ η ρ ο ν ο μ ο ς]. See on inheritance,...
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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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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...
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Now — To illustrate by a plain similitude the preeminence of the
Christian, over the legal, dispensation. The heir, as long as he is a
child — As he is under age. Differeth nothing from a servant — No...
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The apostle, in these words, compares the church of God, under the Old
Testament, to an infant or child in its minority and nonage; partly
with respect to their weakness in understanding, and want of...