Galatians 4:26

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. This stands instead of the sentence which we should expect, to correspond to Galatians 4:24, 'one from mount Sinai.' But the other covenant answers to the heavenly Jerusalem above, which is (in the allegory) Sarah. JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE (Hebrews 12:22, "the heavenly Jerusalem") - the center of the spiritual kingdom, as the old Jerusalem was the center of Judaism. See note on the distinction between Hierousalem and Hierosolyma, Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:2. Here 'the Messianic theocracy,...

26._But Jerusalem, which is above_. The Jerusalem which he calls _above_, or heavenly, is not contained in heaven; nor are we to seek for it out of this world; for the Church is spread over the whole world, and is a “stranger and pilgrim on the earth.” (Hebrews 11:13.) Why then is it said to be from heaven? Because it originates in heavenly grace; for the sons of God are “born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,” (John 1:13,) but by the power of the Holy Spirit. The heavenly Jerusalem, which derives its origin from heaven, and dwells above by faith, is the mother of believers. To the Church, under God, we owe it that we are “born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorr

21-27 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an allegory, wherein, beside the literal and historical sense of the words, the Spirit of God points out something further. Hagar and Sarah were apt emblems of the two different dispensations of the covenant. The heavenly Jerusalem, the true church from above, represented by Sarah, is in a state of freedom, and is the mother of all believers, who are born of the Holy Spirit. They were by regeneration and true faith, made a part of the true seed of Abraham, according to the promise made to him....

Verse 26. _BUT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE_] The apostle still follows the Jewish _allegory_, showing not only how the story of _Hagar_ and _Sarah, Ishmael_ and _Isaac_, was allegorized, but pointing out also that even _Jerusalem_ was the subject of allegory; for it was a maxim among the rabbins, that "whatsoever was in the earth, the same was also found in heaven for there is no matter, howsoever small, in this world, that has not something similar to it in the spiritual world." On this maxim, the Jews imagine that every earthly thing has its _representative_ in heaven; and especially whatever concerns _Jerusalem_, the _law_, and its _ordinances_. Rab. _Kimchi_, speaking of Melchizedec, king of Salem, says: זו ירושלם של מעלה _zu Yerushalem shel malah_, "This is the Jerusalem that is from above." This phrase frequently occurs among these writers, as may be seen in _Schoettgen_, who has wri...

BUT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE - The spiritual Jerusalem; the true church of God. Jerusalem was the place where God was worshipped, and hence, it became synonymous with the word church, or is used to represent the people of God. The word rendered “above,” (ἄνω anō) means properly “up above,” that which is above; and hence, heavenly, celestial; Colossians 3:1; John 8:23. Here it means the heavenly or celestial Jerusalem; Revelation 21:2, “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven.” Hebrews 12:22,” ye are come unt

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. Galatians 3:17; Galatians 5:16; Romans 15:8, according to the Received Text; 1 Corinthians 1:12. So τοῦτο δέ φημι, 1 Corinthians 7:29;...

BUT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE,.... This Sarah was a type and figure of; she answered to, and agreed with this; which is to be understood, not of the church triumphant in heaven, but of the Gospel church state under the administration of the new covenant; and that, not as in the latter day glory, when the new Jerusalem shall descend from God out of heaven, but as it then was in the apostle's time, and has been since. Particular respect may be had to the first Gospel church at Jerusalem, which consisted of persons born from above, was blessed with a Gospel spirit, which is a spirit of liberty, out of which the Gospel went into all the world, and from among whom the apostles and first preachers of the word went forth everywhere, and were the means of the conversion of multitudes, both among Jews and Gentiles, and so might be truly said to be the mother of us all. The church in general, under...

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. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 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, that we might receive the adoption of sons._ Like little children, the Jewish believers were under the law. They observed this ceremony and that, just as children, even though they may be heirs to vast estates, yet, while they are in their minority, are under tutors and governors. But now in Christ we have come of age, and we have done with those school-books and that tutorship, and we have received the adoption of sons. Now, we have joy and peace in belie

GALATIANS 4:26 h`mw/n {A} The Textus Receptus, following ac A C2 K P 81 614 arm _al,_ inserts pa,ntwn before h`mw/n (cf. Romans 4:16), an insertion which “gives the text a broader, pastoral application, but obscures Paul’s distinction between the ‘chosen ones’ and the ‘sons of Hagar’” (Zuntz, p. 223). The uninterpolated text is strongly supported by î46 a* B C* D G Y 33 1739 most Old Latin vg syrp, hmg copsa, bo goth eth Marcion Irenaeus _al_....

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 backsliding Galatians. (Galatians 4:8) 5. The sons of the bondwoman and of the free woman. (Galatians 4:21) Jewish believers were, before Christ had died, the children of God, and as such they did not differ from servants. They were in a state of minority, as children who do not know the father's thoughts, nor cou