Gálatas 4:30-31 NVI

The Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 4:31

In the Greek text of this verse, taken in connection with the first of the next chapter, there is a great diversity of readings. The following are the forms in which it is presented by the principal editors:— The following are the probable translations of these several forms of the text:— read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 4:30

Nevertheless - But Ἀλλὰ (Alla).What saith the Scripture? - What does the Scripture teach on the subject? What lesson does it convey in regard to the bondman?Cast out the bondwoman and her son - This was the language of Sarah, in an address to Abraham, requesting him to cast out Hagar and Ishmael; Genesis 21:10. That was done. Paul uses it here as applicable to the case before him. As used by him the meaning is, that everything like servitude in the gospel is to be rejected, as Hagar and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Galatians 4:31

So then, brethren - It follows from all this. Not from the allegory regarded as an argument - for Paul does not use it thus - but from the considerations suggested on the whole subject. Since the Christian religion is so superior to the Jewish; since we are by it freed from degrading servitude, and are not in bondage to rites and ceremonies; since it was designed to make us truly free, and since by that religion we are admitted to the privileges of sons, and are no longer under laws, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 4:28-30

Galatians 4:28-30. Now That I may apply what has just been advanced to ourselves; we, brethren Who believe, whether Jews or Gentiles; as Isaac was Κατα Ισαακ , after the manner of Isaac; are children of promise Are children of God, being children of Abraham and Sarah, by the promise which made him the father, and her the mother, of nations. In other words, we are children, not born in a natural way, but by the supernatural power of God; and as such, we are heirs of the promise made to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:21-31

Example of Hagar and Sarah (4:21-31)Paul now attacks the Judaisers by using a form of argument that they themselves liked to use. He returns to the story of Abraham to show that law-keeping is slavery and it cannot be mixed with grace. (For the background to the illustration that follows read Genesis 15:1-6; Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 17:15-22; Genesis 18:1-15; Genesis 21:1-21.) Abraham had two sons, Ishmael, who was born as a result of human arrangements that lacked any exercise of faith, and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 4:30

Cast out . Greek. ekballo . App-174 . not = by no means. Greek. ou me . App-105 . be heir = inherit. Greek. kleronomeo . See 1 Corinthians 6:9 , Quoted from Genesis 21:10 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 4:31

So then . Tho texts read, "Wherefore. " read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Galatians 4:30

Howbeit what saith the Scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.This is the dramatic and blunt conclusion Paul enforced by his appeal to this allegory. "When the Judaizers pride themselves on the fact that they are `sons of Abraham,' let it be remembered that Abraham had two sons."[27] In Paul's times, and until now, there are still two classes of "sons of Abraham"; and the significant question is, "Who is a real... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Galatians 4:31

Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.This was Paul's summary of the allegory just related. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 4:31

Galatians 4:31. So then, brethren,— The Apostle, by this allegorical history, shews the Galatians that they who are sons of Agar, that is to say, under the law given at mount Sinai, are in bondage; the peculiar inheritance being designed for those only who are the free-born sons of God, under the spiritual covenant of the gospel. And thereupon he exhorts them in the following words, to preserve themselves in that state of freedom; for the exhortation in Gal 4:1 of the following chapter is so... read more