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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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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4:4 come (h-15) Or 'born,' but the word ( _ ginomai_ ) means primarily
'to begin existence,' 'to become,' or 'to happen.'...
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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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Cp. Galatians 3:19; Galatians 3:24; Romans 5:20; Romans 5:21. MADE] RV
'born'; entering fully into our human lot....
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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(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...
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_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...
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(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)...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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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BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON,
MADE OF A WOMAN, MADE UNDER THE LAW,...
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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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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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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...
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but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of
a woman, born under the law...
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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,...
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Galatians 4:4 But G1161 when G3753 fullness G4138 time G5550 come
G2064 (G5627) God G2316 forth G1821 ...
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‘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...
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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 4:4. 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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 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!...
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_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...
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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...
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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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1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 4:9; 1 Timothy 3:16;...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...