Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Galatians 4:2
But is under tutors and governors (a) until the time appointed of the father.
(a) This is added because he that is always under a tutor or governor may hardly be considered a freeman.
But is under tutors and governors (a) until the time appointed of the father.
(a) This is added because he that is always under a tutor or governor may hardly be considered a freeman.
Verse Galatians 4:2. _BUT IS UNDER TUTORS_] επιτροπους. _Guardians_ and _governors_; οικονομους. those who have the _charge_ of the _family._ These words are nearly similar; but we may consider the fi...
BUT IS UNDER - Is subject to their control and direction. TUTORS - The word tutor with us properly means instructor. But this is not quite the sense of the original. The word (επίτροπος epitropos); p...
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)...
UNDER. Greek. _hupo_. App-104. TUTORS. Greek. _epitropos_. Elsewhere, Matthew 20:8; Luke 8:3 (steward). GOVERNORS. Greek. _oikonomos_. See Luke 16:1 (steward). TIME APPOINTED. Greek. prothesmio
_tutors and governors_ GUARDIANS AND STEWARDS, the one having the charge of his person, the other the management of his estate. _the time appointed of the father_ the time fixed before by his father f...
ἈΛΛʼ ὙΠῸ ἘΠΙΤΡΌΠΟΥΣ ἘΣΤῚ, Matthew 20:8; Luke 8:3[114]. See Appendix, note C. ἐπ. = any person to whom authority is committed, whether a Procurator, e.g. Cumanus in Joseph. _Ant._ xx. 6. 2 (§ 132), or...
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...
ΕΠΊΤΡΟΠΟΣ (G2012) попечитель, общий термин для определения человека, заботящегося о доверенном ему ребенке; может быть юридическим термином для определения наставника (Betz; Ridderbos). ΟΊΚΟΝΌΜΟΣ (G3...
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...
_VERSE 2. BUT IS UNDER TUTORS AND GOVERNORS UNTIL THE TIME APPOINTED OF THE FATHER._...
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...
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...
TUTORS] RV 'guardians'; the regular term for the guardian of a minor. GOVERNORS] RV 'stewards,' who have the management of his prospective property. TIME (RV 'term') APPOINTED] the time of reaching hi...
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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UNDER TUTORS AND GOVERNORS. — The distinction between these two terms is that between guardians of the person and stewards of the property. It would be better to translate, _guardians and stewards._ U...
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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...
(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)...
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...
BUT IS UNDER TUTORS AND GOVERNORS,.... The word rendered "tutors", is adopted by the Jewish Targumists and Rabbins into their language; and by the former is used x for any ruler and governor, civil or...
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Ver. 2. _But is under tutors_] Those under the law were but alphabetaries (rudimentaries) in comparison of those under the go...
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...
THE TIME APPOINTED; for his taking possession of his inheritance....
BUT IS UNDER TUTORS AND GOVERNORS UNTIL THE TIME APPOINTED OF THE FATHER....
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...
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...
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...
The heir, (mentioned in the former verse), though he be an heir of a great estate, yet is not presently possessed of it; but he is by his father kept under tutors and governors, until the time which h...
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father....
Galatians 4:2 but G235 is G2076 (G5748) under G5259 guardians G2012 and G2532 stewards G3623 until G891 appointed...
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 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...
Galatians 4:2. UNDER GUARDIANS (including the tutor or pedagogue) AND STEWARDS, who control the person and the property of the minor till he becomes of age, which the Hebrew law fixed at thirteen year...
_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...
UNDER GUARDIANS (υπο επιτροπους). Old word from επιτρεπω, to commit, to intrust. So either an overseer (Matthew 20:8) or one in charge of children as here. It is common as the guardian of an orphan...
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...
WHILE HE IS YOUNG. "An orphan son, before he reaches the age of legal maturity, is treated just like a slave, and there are men who take care of him (guardians) and who manage his affairs (trustees),...
_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...
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...
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...
Tutors [ε π ι τ ρ ο π ο υ ς]. Better, guardians. See on Luke 8:3. Only here in Paul. A general term, covering all to whom supervision of the child is intrusted, and should not be limited to paidagwgov...
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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But is under tutors — As to his person. And stewards — As to his substance....