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Galatians, Epistle to - The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged.
Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13, 19). They seem to have been composed mainly of converts from heathenism (4:8), but partly also of Jewish converts, who probably, under the influence of Judaizing teachers, sought to incorporate the rites of Judaism with Christianity, and by their...
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Galatians 4:1 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Galatians 4:2 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Galatians 4:3 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians 4:4 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Galatians 4:5 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:6 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:7 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4:8 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians 4:9 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Galatians 4:10 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Galatians 4:11 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians 4:12 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Galatians 4:13 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Galatians 4:14 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:15 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Galatians 4:16 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Galatians 4:17 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Galatians 4:18 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4:19 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Galatians 4:20 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Galatians 4:21 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:22 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Galatians 4:23 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians 4:24 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Galatians 4:25 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4:26 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 4:27 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Galatians 4:28 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Galatians 4:29 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Galatians 4:30 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Galatians 4:31 [ Sermons | M. Henry | Concise | Geneva | Wesley | John Gill ] So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
