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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:19

My little children - Τεκνια μου· My beloved children. As their conversion to God had been the fruit of much labor, prayers, and tears, so he felt them as his children, and peculiarly dear to him, because he had been the means of bringing them to the knowledge of the truth; therefore he represents himself as suffering the same anxiety and distress which he endured at first when he preached the Gospel to them, when their conversion to Christianity was a matter of great doubt and uncertainty.... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:20

I desire to be present with you - I wish to accommodate my doctrine to your state; I know not whether you need stronger reprehension, or to be dealt with more leniently. I stand in doubt of you - I have doubts concerning your state; the progress of error and conviction among you, which I cannot fully know without being among you, This appears to be the apostle's meaning, and tends much to soften and render palatable the severity of his reproofs. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21

Ye that desire to be under the law - Ye who desire to incorporate the Mosaic institutions with Christianity, and thus bring yourselves into bondage to circumcision, and a great variety of oppressive rites. Do ye not hear the law? - Do ye not understand what is written in the Pentateuch relative to Abraham and his children. It is evident that the word law is used in two senses in this verse. It first means the Mosaic institutions; secondly, the Pentateuch, where the history is recorded to... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:22

For it is written - Viz. in Genesis 16:15 ; Genesis 22:1 , etc., that Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac; the one; Ishmael, by a bond maid, Hagar; the other, Isaac, by a free woman, Sarah. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:23

Was born after the flesh - Ishmael was born according to the course of nature, his parents being both of a proper age, so that there was nothing uncommon or supernatural in his birth: this is the proper meaning of the apostle's κατα σαρκα , after or according to the flesh, and answers to the Hebrew phrase, בשר דרך על al derec basar , according to the manner of the flesh, i.e. naturally, according to the common process of nature. By promise - Both Abraham and Sarah had passed that... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:24

Which things are an allegory - They are to be understood spiritually; more being intended in the account than meets the eye. Allegory, from αλλος , another, and αγορεω , or αγορευω , to speak, signifies a thing that is a representative of another, where the literal sense is the representative of a spiritual meaning; or, as the glossary expresses it, ἑτερως κατα μεταφρασιν νοουμενα, και ου κατα την αναγνωσιν· "where the thing is to be understood differently in the interpretation... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:25

For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia - Το γαρ Αγαρ Σινα ορος εστιν εν τη Αραβια . This is the common reading; but it is read differently in some of the most respectable MSS., versions, and fathers; thus: το γαρ Σινα ορος εστιν εν τῃ Αραβια , for this Sinai is a mountain of Arabia; the word Αγαρ , Agar, being omitted. This reading is supported by CFG, some others, the Ethiopic, Armenian, Vulgate, and one copy of the Itala; by Epiphanius, Damascenus, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, Augustine,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:26

But Jerusalem which is above - The apostle still follows the Jewish allegory, showing not only how the story of Hagar and Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac, was allegorized, but pointing out also that even Jerusalem was the subject of allegory; for it was a maxim among the rabbins, that "whatsoever was in the earth, the same was also found in heaven for there is no matter, howsoever small, in this world, that has not something similar to it in the spiritual world." On this maxim, the Jews imagine... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:27

Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not - This quotation is taken from Isaiah 54:1 , and is certainly a promise which relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, as the following clause proves; for the desolate - the Gentile world, hath many more children - is a much larger and more numerous Church, than she - Jerusalem, the Jewish state, which hath a husband - has been so long in covenant with God, living under his continual protection, and in possession of a great variety of spiritual... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:28

Now we - Who believe in the Lord Jesus, are the children of promise - are the spiritual offspring of the Messiah, the seed of Abraham, in whom the promise stated that all the nations of the earth should be blessed. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:28

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