Galatians 4:4-5

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Galatians 4:1-31

Amended Expressions Gal 4:9 In the course of his writing the Apostle said, "After that ye have known God, or rather ." That is the point. The subject is Amended Expressions, self-correction in the use of language. Sometimes we are too fluent, and we are halfway through a sentence before it occurs to us that we are on the wrong track. We start sentences from the wrong end. However skilful we may be in the use of words, sometimes we are halfway through a sentence before we see that the sentence... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Galatians 4:4-7

(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) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. It is among the precious testimonies of divine teaching, that there is a set time to favor Zion. Psalms 102:13 . And every child of God would do well, through grace, if he had the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:4

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, because he was pleased to make himself so. (Witham) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:1-7

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 meaning of the law as given by Moses. And as that was a dispensation of darkness, so of bondage; they were tied to many burdensome rites and observances, by which they were taught and kept subject like a child under tutors and governors. We learn the happier state of Christians under the gospel... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Galatians 4:1-99

Galations 4 THE OPENING VERSES of chapter 4 gather up the thoughts that have occupied the latter part of chapter 3, and summarize them in very crisp fashion. The custom that prevailed in the houses of the nobility and that still in measure prevail is such circles are used as an illustration. The heir to the estate, so long as he is in infancy, is placed under restraint, just as the servants are. Tutors and governors hold him in what appears to him to be bondage. He just has to do as he is... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Galatians 4:1-7

The Sonship of the Believers Opposed to the Bondage of the Law. The believers sons and heirs through Christ: v. 1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, v. 2. but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. v. 3. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world; v. 4. but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Galatians 4:1-7

c. In their condition of minority the sons of God were indeed held as servants = were under the law; but with the sending of the Son fo God the time of majority, and therefore of the full position of sons and heirs, is come.(Galatians 4:1-7)(The Epistle for the Sunday after Christmas.)1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing [in nothing] from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2But is under tutors and governors [guardians and stewards]1 until the time appointed... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Galatians 4:4-5

Galatians THE SON SENT Gal_4:4-5 R.V.. It is generally supposed that by the ‘fulness of time’ Paul means to indicate that Christ came at the moment when the world was especially prepared to receive Him, and no doubt that is a true thought. The Jews had been trained by law to the conviction of sin; heathenism had tried its utmost, had reached the full height of its possible development, and was decaying. Rome had politically prepared the way for the spread of the Gospel. Vague expectations... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Galatians 4:1-11

Live as Sons, not as Bondmen Galatians 4:1-11 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 legislation in itself, yet when it was imposed upon inquiring minds as necessary to salvation, Paul spoke of it as belonging to an age that had passed away and to a system that was already antiquated. The whole purpose of God in sending forth His Son was to redeem us from under the Law, that... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Galatians 4:1-31

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 justification and life for those who, while under its tutelage, had broken it. The result of this is that they are sons, and now cry "Abba, Father." Under the old bondage Cod was not known. But now they have come to know God. The return of these Galatian Christians to this ignorance is indicated... read more

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