Verse 4
4. Fulness… time Parallel to the time appointed, Galatians 4:2, at which the minor became major in age. The fulness of the time is, therefore, the completion of the maturing period, in which the nations are ready for the advent of Christ and Christianity. The historic process is going on until “ the wheels of time” have completed their revolution, and the clock of time points to the second and strikes the hour. God is prompt to the instant.
Sent forth his Son For the purpose of emancipating the heir from his tutors and governors. Roman law had its processes for this purpose; the divine law has a method of its own. The divine Father sends an elder brother to assume subjection and emancipate us, the child, with himself.
Made of a woman That he might be our brother.
Under the law Rather, under law, the article not being in the Greek. Made of a woman is parallel to child, Galatians 4:1; made under law is parallel to under tutors and governors, Galatians 4:2.
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