Galatians 4:4-5

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Galatians 4:1-6

The Cross and Its Objectives Galatians 3:10-29 ; Galatians 4:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible and spiritual study. Apart from Christ's Calvary work we have nothing to present to a dying world. On one occasion the president of a college told us that his chief ambition was to present to his students the beautiful life of Jesus of Nazareth. We immediately replied that there could be no excessive imitation of the life of Christ until first of all... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Galatians 4:1-22

Turning unto Law-Works Galatians 4:1-22 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-works. This many are doing today. History truly repeats itself. The Spirit of God certainly told us of the Galatians to warn us against stumbling at the same stumbling block. The Galatians knew how the Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for them, that He might deliver them from this present evil... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 4:4-5

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 of sons.’ Galatians 4:4-Deuteronomy : I. The fact of Christ’s mission into the world implies three things, as here stated:—( a) His pre-existence as the Son.( b) The Divine origin of His Gospel.( c) The infinite preciousness of His salvation. II. The time of His mission, as here described, implies:—(... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:1-7

If We Are His We Are Now All Full Sons of God (Galatians 4:1-7 ). 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 of God. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:4-5

‘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 the God Who made the covenant, when the time allotted had fully run its course, sent forth His Own Son. He became truly human (born of a woman), and restricted Himself under the Law, satisfying its requirements to the full. And His purpose in coming was to deliver men and women from under the Law... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:1-7

Galatians 4:1-Judges : . 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 strong eschatological background, felt the claims of the future more even than we do. Yet preceding verses speak of full sonship in Christ as largely implying entrance on the inheritance. The Spirit is earnest or first-fruits ( Romans 8:23, 2 Corinthians 5:5, Ephesians... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 4:4

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 into the most perfect state of liberty, which in this life they are capable of. God sent forth his Son, who was existent before, (being brought forth before the mountains or hills were settled, Proverbs 8:25), but not sent forth until this fulness of time came. And then made of a woman, conceived... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 4:5

This makes it appear, that Christ’s being under the law must be understood as well of the moral as of the ceremonial law, that is, subject to the precepts of it, as well as to the curse of it; for if the end of this being born under the law, was to redeem those that were under it, that he had not reached by being merely under the ceremonial law; for the Gentiles were not under that law, but only under the moral law; and they also were to be redeemed, and to receive the great privilege of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 4:1-7

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 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 perform any act but through his legal representative.Galatians 4:2. Under tutors and governors.—Controllers of his person and property.Galatians 4:3. Under the elements of the world.—The rudimentary religious teaching of a non-religious character. The elementary lessons of outward things.Galatians 4:4.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:4

Galatians 4:4 , Galatians 4:6 Let us consider wherein consisted the preparation of the fulness of the time preceding the birth of Christ for a new turn in the history of the world and wherein consisted the special peculiarity of the coming of Christ which made it the germ of what there was to be in the ages following, and further see how this is really true of ourselves and of our own age. I. There was a general sickness, so to speak, in the condition of the civilised world at that time. Look... read more

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