Galatians 4:19-21

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Galatians 4:20-31

(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) ¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. (23) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. (24) Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:17-20

He tells them this change come from the false teachers among them, who with a false zeal would exclude them from a friendship and a submission to St. Paul, and deprive them again of that Christian liberty by which Christ, and the faith of Christ, had freed them from the yoke of the Mosaical law. On this account I must labor and travail, as it were to bring you forth a second time. How do I now wish to be with you, to change my voice, to exhort you, to reprehend you, to use all ways and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:20

=============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Confundor in vobis, Greek: aporoumai. See 2 Corinthians iv. 8. &c. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:19-20

19,20 The Galatians were ready to account the apostle their enemy, but he assures them he was their friend; he had the feelings of a parent toward them. He was in doubt as to their state, and was anxious to know the result of their present delusions. Nothing is so sure a proof that a sinner has passed into a state of justification, as Christ being formed in him by the renewal of the Holy Spirit; but this cannot be hoped for, while men depend on the law for acceptance with God. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21-27

21-27 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an allegory, wherein, beside the literal and historical sense of the words, the Spirit of God points out something further. Hagar and Sarah were apt emblems of the two different dispensations of the covenant. The heavenly Jerusalem, the true church from above, represented by Sarah, is in a state of freedom, and is the mother of... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Galatians 4:1-99

Galations 4 THE OPENING VERSES of chapter 4 gather up the thoughts that have occupied the latter part of chapter 3, and summarize them in very crisp fashion. The custom that prevailed in the houses of the nobility and that still in measure prevail is such circles are used as an illustration. The heir to the estate, so long as he is in infancy, is placed under restraint, just as the servants are. Tutors and governors hold him in what appears to him to be bondage. He just has to do as he is... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Galatians 4:19-23

An urgent appeal to an Old Testament example: v. 19. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. v. 20. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. v. 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear the Law? v. 22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. v. 23. But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh; but he of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Galatians 4:19-30

D. Confirmation of the freedom of Christians, from the narrative of the Scripture concerning the two sons of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, by means of an interpretation referring it to the Jewish and the Christian ChurchGalatians 4:19-30(Galatians 4:21-31. The Epistle for the 4th Sunday in Lent.)19My little children22 of whom I travail in birth again [with whom I am again in 20travail] until Christ be formed in you, I desire [I could wish indeed] to be present with you now, and to change my voice... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Galatians 4:12-20

Truthful and Devoted Dealing Galatians 4:12-20 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to trust in ceremonies, rites, and a prescribed routine! Inevitably these bring us into bondage. Let us therefore not pay slavish attention to the outward, but seek to have Christ within, and from within He will become the energy and passion of a new life. Each time we yield to the prompting of His Spirit, there is less of self and more of Him. In... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Galatians 4:21-31

“Children of Promise” Galatians 4:21-31 In this allegory of Sarah and Hagar, it is important to notice that Paul is not dealing with the principle of evil within our hearts, but with the attempt to mingle two dispensations or methods of religious experience-the Law and the Gospel. He says that the poor slave girl, Hagar, whom Abraham bought as a personal attendant for his wife, stands for Mount Sinai, the mountain of the Law, in the district of Arabia, from which she may have originally... read more

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