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Verse Galatians 4:3. _EVEN SO WE_] The whole Jewish people were in a
state of nonage while under the law.
_THE ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD_] A mere Jewish phrase, יסודי
עולם הזה _yesodey olam hazzeh_, "th...
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EVEN SO WE - We who were Jews - for so I think the word here is to be
limited, and not extended to the pagan, as Bloomfield supposes. The
reasons for limiting it are:
* That the pagans in no sense s...
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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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EVEN SO WE. So we also.
IN BONDAGE. enslaved. Greek. _douloo_ App-190.
ELEMENTS. elementary rules. Greek. _stoicheion_. Here, Galatians 4:9;
Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:20;...
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_Even so we_ Both Jews and Gentiles, _as such_, i.e. before conversion
to Christ.
_children_ minors, as in Galatians 4:1.
_the elements of the world_ The exact meaning of this expression is
doubtful....
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ἬΜΕΘΑ אD*G. ἦμεν ABC etc.
3. ΟὝΤΩΣ ΚΑῚ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ. We Jews primarily, though not
exclusively, for the restraints were felt by all until Christ came.
ὍΤΕ ἮΜΕΝ ΝΉΠΙΟΙ, Galatians 4:1. What a claim for the...
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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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EVEN SO WE,— It is plain that St. Paul speaks here in the name of
the _Jews_ or _Jewish church,_ which, though God's peculiar people,
yet was to pass a _nonage,—_so St. Paul calls it,—under the
restra...
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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 3. EVEN SO WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WERE IN BONDAGE UNDER
THE ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD._
VERSE 3. Under the elements of the world.
The Law of Moses deals with mundane matters. It holds the mir...
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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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CHILDREN] in a state of tutelage under the Law. ELEMENTS] RV
'rudiments' (cp. Galatians 4:9; Colossians 2:8); elementary religious
observances belonging to the outward, visible WORLD....
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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 basic things that people in the world believe’ probably
refers to the *Gentile religions. Paul had already described how the
*Jewish law made the *Jews like prisoners (3:23). Most Christians in
G...
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WE. — That is, in the first instance, and specially, the Jews; but
the Gentiles are also included. The Apostle is speaking from the point
of view of the Christians: “all who are now Christians, whatev...
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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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νήπιοι : _children, i.e._, spiritually children. The clause
points to the stage of undeveloped spiritual life through which
converts from heathenism had passed, the spiritual childhood which had
been...
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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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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (b)
elements of the world:
(b) The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instructed his
Church as it were by elements, and afterw...
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_Under the elements of the world. St. John Chrysostom understands the
exterior ceremonies and precepts of the law of Moses, with an allusion
to the first elements or rudiments which children are taugh...
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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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3._Under the elements of the world. Elements _may either mean,
literally, outward and bodily things, or, metaphorically, rudiments. I
prefer the latter interpretation. But why does he say that those
t...
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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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EVEN SO WE,.... Jews, for of such the apostle is only speaking, and to
whom he applies the above case of heirs in minority; it was to the
Jews he had spoken of the law, as being a military guard, a pr...
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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world:
Ver. 3. _When we were children_] Gr. νηπιοι, infants, babies,
that must be pleased with rattles; so the old Church...
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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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WE; the covenant people of God before the advent of Christ, into whom,
after his coming, the Gentiles also are incorporated by faith.
WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN; under the Old Testament dispensation, when...
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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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EVEN SO WE, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WERE IN BONDAGE UNDER THE ELEMENTS
OF THE WORLD;...
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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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ELEMENTS:
Or, rudiments...
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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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Such children were all believers, the seed of Abraham; from the first
designed to a gospel liberty, but that was not to be fully enjoyed,
until the fulness of time should come when God intended to sen...
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So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the
rudiments of the world...
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Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX
For it seems expedient that we, making an onslaught upon the opinion
which constitutes the prime source of (contemporaneous) evils, should
prove what are...
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Galatians 4:3 Even G2532 so G3779 we G2249 when G3753 were G2258
(G5713) children G3516 were G2258 ...
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‘So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the
rudiments (elements) of the world.'
All men are under some restraint, whether through the Law, or
tradition, or their own laws, or re...
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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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Galatians 4:3. SO WE ALSO, WHEN WE WERE MINORS, the Jewish Christians
before their conversion, comp. Galatians 3:23. In a wider sense the
words are applicable to the heathen Christians also, whose for...
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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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WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN
(οτε ημεν νηπιο). Before the epoch of faith came and we
(Jews and Gentiles) were under the law as paedagogue, guardian,
steward, to use all of Paul's metaphors.WE WERE HELD IN...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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Galatians 4:3
I. Mankind has been in the position of a child, and successive
generations have been slowly trained by God's fatherly care, as a
preparation for that liberty wherewith Christ has made u...
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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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WE TOO WERE SLAVES. "Before the First Coming of Christ, the ruling
spirits of the universe formed a valuable discipline for the education
of the world, although they held us as slaves." Compare Galati...
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_Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world._
THE ELEMENTS OF THIS WORLD
The law was so called.
I. In respect of the fuller and complete doctrine of the new...
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GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:3 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES. Both here and
in v. Galatians 4:9, these principles for Jews would be the Mosaic
law. For Gentiles it would be the ba
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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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Acts 15:10; Colossians 2:20; Colossians 2:8; Galatians 3:19; G
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We. Not Jewish Christians only, but all Christians. For in verse 5,
Jewish Christians are distinctly characterized as those under the law,
while the following we, subjects of Christian adoption, point...
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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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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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So we — The church of God. When we were children — In our
minority, under the legal dispensation. Were in bondage — In a kind
of servile state. Under the elements of the world — Under the
typical obse...