Gálatas 4:10-14 NVT

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:11

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 labor in your conversion have been thrown away. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12

Be as I am - Thoroughly addicted to the Christian faith and worship, from the deepest conviction of its truth. For I am as ye are - I was formerly a Jew, and as zealously addicted to the rites and ceremonies of Judaism as ye are, but I am saved from that mean and unprofitable dependence: "Be therefore as I am now; who was once as you now are." Others think the sense to be this: "Be as affectionate to me as I am to you; for ye were once as loving to me as I am now to you." Ye have not... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:13

Ye know how through infirmity - The apostle seems to say that he was much afflicted in body when he first preached the Gospel to them. And is this any strange thing, that a minister, so laborious as St. Paul was, should be sometimes overdone and overcome by the severity of his labors? Surely not. This might have been only an occasional affliction, while laboring in that part of Asia Minor; and not a continual and incurable infirmity, as some have too hastily conjectured. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:14

And my temptation which was in my flesh - On this verse there are a great many various readings, as there are various opinions. Instead of μου , My temptation, ABC*D*FG, some others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, Itala, and several of the primitive fathers, have ὑμων , Your temptation. The word πειρασμον , which we translate temptation, signifies trial of any kind. The verse therefore may be read, "Ye despised not the trial which was in my flesh;" or, "Ye despised not your trial,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:10

Verse 10 10.Ye observe days. He adduces as an instance one description of “elements,” the observance of days. No condemnation is here given to the observance of dates in the arrangements of civil society. The order of nature out of which this arises, is fixed and constant. How are months and years computed, but by the revolution of the sun and moon? What distinguishes summer from winter, or spring from harvest, but the appointment of God, — an appointment which was promised to continue to the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:11

Verse 11 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 expressed astonishment that Paul should be so powerfully affected by the observance of days, as almost to designate it a subversion of the whole gospel. But if we carefully weigh the whole, we shall see that there was just reason; and that the false apostles not only attempted to lay the yoke... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12

Verse 12 12.Be as I am. Having till now spoken roughly, he begins to adopt a milder strain. The former harshness had been more than justified by the heinousness of the offense; but as he wished to do good, he resolves to adopt a style of conciliation. It is the part of a wise pastor to consider, not what those who have wandered may justly deserve, but what may be the likeliest method of bringing them back to the right path. He must “be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:13

Verse 13 13.Ye know that, through infirmity of the flesh. He recalls to their recollection the friendly and respectful manner in which they had received him, and he does so for two reasons. First, to let them know that he loved them, and thus to gain a ready ear to all that he says; and secondly, to encourage them, that, as they had begun well, they would go on in the same course. This mention of past occurrences, then, while it is an expression of his kind regards, is intended likewise as an... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:14

Verse 14 14.My temptation. That is, “Though ye perceived me to be, in a worldly point of view, a contemptible person, yet ye did not reject me.” He calls it a temptation or trial, because it was a thing not unknown or hidden, and he did not himself attempt to conceal it, as is usually done by ambitious men, who are ashamed of anything about them that may lower them in public estimation. It frequently happens that unworthy persons receive applause, before their true character has been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 4:1-11

Majority and minority. I. THE CHILD COMING TO HIS MAJORITY . Analogy. "But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bond-servant, though he is lord of all; but is under guardians and stewards until the term appointed of the father." At the close of the preceding chapter Christians were described as Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. It is with regard to this that the apostle now makes use of an analogy. It is a very simple and... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 4:1-11

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