Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 4:21-23
The biblical story 4:21-23 read more
Galatians-4:19-21
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 4:21-31
3. The biblical illustration 4:21-31Paul interpreted allegorically (i.e., figuratively, NIV) features of the history of Abraham’s two sons to convince his readers that they were in danger of joining the wrong branch of Abraham’s family. The apostle appears to have used the story of Abraham the way he did because this was a common rabbinic method that the Judaizers probably employed in their teaching in Galatia. [Note: R. Alan Cole, The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, pp. 128-29. Longenecker... read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Galatians 4:19
4:19 children, (c-2) Teknia , as John 13:33 . read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:1-31
The Bondage of the Law. Freedom in Christ1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons.Paraphrase. ’(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more enter upon his inheritance than a servant in the family can possess himself of it, (2) but must continue, until the set time, in a subordinate position, and under the authority and training of others. (3) So, when we were under the elementary Law system, we were in a position like that of the heir in... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Galatians 4:17-20
(17-20) All this eagerness to court your favour springs from an interested motive: they wish to make a sect of you, in which they shall be masters and courted in their turn. Not but that it is a good thing for teachers and taught—you and I—to seek favour with each other, so long as it is done disinterestedly, and that, too, when I am absent as well as when I am present. My heart yearns towards you. I cannot forget that you owe your life, as Christians, to me. Now, once more, it seems as if all... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Galatians 4:19
(19) My little children.—The form is a diminutive, not found elsewhere in the writings of St. Paul, though common in St. John. It is used to heighten the tenderness of the appeal. The simple form, however, “my children,” is found in some of the best MSS., and perhaps should be adopted. St. Paul regards as his spiritual children all who first received the gospel from him.Of whom I travail in birth again.—The struggle which ends in the definite winning over of his converts to Christ, the Apostle... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Galatians 4:20
(20) I desire.—The Greek is not quite so definite: “I could indeed wish.”Change my voice.—Rather, change my tone; speak in terms less severe.I stand in doubt of you.—Rather, as in the margin, I am perplexed about you—i.e., I do not know what to say to you—how I ought to deal with you so as to win you back from this defection. If the Apostle had been present, so as to see what effect his words were having, he would know what line to take. As it is, in writing to them he is at a loss, and fears... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Galatians 4:21
(21) Ye that desire to be under the law.—A direct appeal to those who were inclined to give way to the Judaising party.Do ye not hear the law?—“Hear” is probably to be taken in the sense of “give heed to,” “listen to with attention,” as in Matthew 10:14; Matthew 13:9; Matthew 13:13; Luke 16:29; Luke 16:31. Some have thought that it merely refers to the practice of reading a lesson from the Old Testament, which was adopted into the Christian Church from the synagogue. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Galatians 4:21-31
(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further proof that freedom is the essential character of the Christian dispensation.We have seen that St. Paul applies the history of the natural Israel allegorically to the spiritual Israel; and not only does he do this with reference to the history of the formed theocracy, but he goes back to its origin in the time of the patriarchs, and traces there the... read more
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Galatians 4:21
Paul challenged his readers, who claimed to value the Law so highly, to consider what it taught. He chose his lesson from Genesis, a book in the "Law" section of the Old Testament. Thus he used the term "law" to refer to two different things in this verse: the Mosaic Law and the Old Testament. Again Paul returned to Abraham, the founder of Judaism. read more