Galatians 4:11
What meaning of the galatians 4:11 in the Bible?
What does Galatians 4:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain."
What does Galatians 4:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain."
Verse 11. _I AM AFRAID OF YOU_] I begin now to be seriously alarmed for you, and think you are so thoroughly perverted from the Gospel of Christ, that all my pains and labour in your conversion have b...
I AM AFRAID OF YOU ... - I have fears respecting you. His fears were that they had no genuine Christian principle. They had been so easily perverted and turned back to the servitude of ceremonies and...
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 backsli...
The state of the Galatians, while heathen, was similar but worse. They had not been heirs in a state of temporary slavery, but frankly slaves to the mere element-spirits, those undivine gods they wors...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
LOST. lest by any means. Greek. _me pos_. BESTOWED, &c, Compare Romans 16:6. UPON. Greek. _eis_, App-104. IN VAIN. See Galatians 3:4,...
_I am afraid of you_ Sad thought, that all the toil which he had undergone on their behalf might prove to have been in vain! The possibility of such a result softens his tone, and as he thinks of his...
8–11. _Appeal; after so great a change how can you go back!_ (Galatians 4:8) But—before your conversion, when you knew not God, ye were slaves to them which by origin are not gods; (Galatians 4:9) and...
ΦΟΒΟΎΜΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΦΟΒΈΟΜΑΙ (G5399) бояться, страшиться, ΜΉ ΠΩΣ (G3361; G4458) чтобы не, используется здесь с _ind._ после гл. опасения. Ind. означает, что беспокойство связано с ч...
DISCOURSE: 2072 MINISTERS LABOURING IN VAIN Galatians 4:11. _I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain_. MINISTERS are, in the Scriptures, compared to husbandmen. Now, no one c...
I AM AFRAID OF YOU, &C.— There was the greater reason for this apprehension, as the fixing the time for the Jewish feasts depended upon the great Sanhedrim; so that their observing them would bring th...
TEXT 4:8-11 (8) Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: (9) but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back...
_VERSE 11. I AM AFRAID OF YOU, LEST I HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU LABOR IN VAIN._...
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. HOWBEIT - contrast of their former with their present state. Appeal not to turn back from their privileges...
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...
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...
(8-11) The results of the foregoing argument are now turned against the Galatians. In their old heathen state they had been in bondage to gods that were no gods. From this bondage they had been delive...
CHAPTER 17 THE RETURN TO BONDAGE. Galatians 4:8 "Sons of God, whom He made His heirs in Christ, how are you turning back to legal bondage!" Such is the appeal with which the Apostle follows up his a...
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE APOSTLE AT THE CHANGED FEELING OF HIS CONVERTS; REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST; PATHETIC APPEAL TO OLD AFFECTION; PROTEST AGAINST PRESENT ESTRANGEMENT....
LIVE AS SONS, NOT AS BONDMEN Galatians 4:1 The Apostle often uses the word _elements_ or “rudiments,” Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9; Colossians 2:8; Colossians 2:20. High and holy as was the Mosaic le...
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...
You observe [1] days, &c. These false teachers were for obliging all Christians to observe all the Jewish feasts, fasts, ceremonies, &c. Some of the later reformers find here an occasion to blame the...
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods....
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...
11._Lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain_. The expression is harsh, and must have filled the Galatians with alarm; for what hope was left to them, if Paul’s labor had been in vain? Some have ex...
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...
I AM AFRAID OF YOU,.... Which shows the danger he apprehended they were in, by taking such large steps from Christianity to Judaism, and expresses the godly jealousy of the apostle over them; intimate...
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Ver. 11. _Lest I have bestowed labour_] Gr. κεκοπιακα, even to lassitude, as a day labourer. Other work folks find their work as they...
_Howbeit_ Αλλα, _but_, or _however_, that ye Gentiles may not foolishly reject, neglect, or forfeit your privileges, as the sons of God, you ought to remember what your condition was while under _the...
I AM AFRAID OF YOU; he was fearful that they were depending for salvation on Jewish ceremonies, not on Christ; in which case his labor to bring them to Christ would be lost. There has always been a pr...
The foolishness of backsliding from this truth:...
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...
YOU OBSERVE DAYS AND MONTHS AND SEASONS AND YEARS. Days = Sabbaths, Holy Days Months = New Moon festivals Times = Annual feasts like Pentecost, Passover, etc. Years = Sabbath year, Jubilee 11 I A...
8-11 The happy change whereby the Galatians were turned from idols to the living God, and through Christ had received the adoption of sons, was the effect of his free and rich grace; they were laid u...
Paul knew that, with reference to himself, he had not laboured in vain; he might say with Isaiah, ISAIAH 49:5: _Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorified._ He had told the Corinthians, t...
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. [This paragraph is addressed especially to the Gentile Christians. He reminds them that at the time of their wardship thei...
Galatians 4:11 afraid G5399 (G5736) you G5209 lest G3381 G4458 labored G2872 (G5758) for G1519 you G5209 vain G1500 am - Galatians 4:20; 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, 2 Corinthians 12:20-21 lest -...
IS IT NOT THEN FOOLISH TO TRY TO TURN BACK TO THEIR FORMER STATE? (GALATIANS 4:8). Granted then that we have received these great privileges from God, would it not be foolish to revert back to being...
_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...
I AM AFRAID OF YOU (φοβουμα υμας). He shudders to think of it.LEST BY ANY MEANS I HAVE BESTOWED LABOUR UPON YOU IN VAIN (μη πως εικη κεκοπιακα εις υμας). Usual construction after a verb of fearin...
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...
I AM AFRAID FOR YOU! "You seem to love these weak and pitiful spirits so much, that I am afraid for you! Can it be that my work has been for nothing? You do not seem to value and understand the freedo...
_I am afraid of you._ A MINISTER’S FEARS I. What are those fears? 1. Lest his word should not issue in conversions. 2. Lest the converted members of his flock should not adorn their profession. 3...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:8 The Galatians are in danger of forfeiting sonship and abandoning the true God. They risk returning to false gods (v. Galatians 4:8) and to worldly ways of life (vv. Gal...
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 4:9. HOW TURN YE AGAIN [anew]?—Making a new beginning in religion, lapsing from Christianity just in as far as they embrace legalism. TO THE WEAK AND BEGGAR...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 12:20; 2 Corinthians 12:21; 2 John 1:8; Acts 16:6; Galatians 2:2
I am afraid of you [φ ο β ο υ μ α ι υ μ α ς]. Not a felicitous translation, though retained by Rev. Rather, "I am afraid for you or concerning you." The second uJmav is not attracted into the principa...
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...
The apostle here, dropping the argument, applies to the affections, Galatians 4:11, and humbles himself to the Galatians, with an inexpressible tenderness....