Galatians 4:19-21

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Galatians 4:1-31

He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son . . . under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured justification and life for those who, while under its tutelage, had broken it. The result of this is that they are sons, and now cry "Abba, Father." Under the old bondage Cod was not known. But now they have come to know God. The return of these Galatian Christians to this ignorance is indicated... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Galatians 4:1-22

Turning unto Law-Works Galatians 4:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvation by law-works. This many are doing today. History truly repeats itself. The Spirit of God certainly told us of the Galatians to warn us against stumbling at the same stumbling block. The Galatians knew how the Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for them, that He might deliver them from this present evil... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 4:19

FAITH AND CHARACTER‘Until Christ be formed in you.’ Galatians 4:19 Why not Christianity without Christ? Ah, we are here face to face with a notable distinction. Of no other system, religious or moral, or both combined, can it be said that the Founder was the Faith. Christ preached no system. If you try and get a system out of the Gospels you will have a hopeless task before you. To systematise is to destroy. You cannot systematise a person. You cannot formulate an informing Christ. Do we get... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12-20

Paul Now Reveals His Concern and Longing for Them (Galatians 4:12-20 ). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what they are losing by their foolishness. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:19

‘My little children, for whom I am again suffering birth pains until Christ be formed in you.’ Paul is now almost in anguish, and he presses home his plea tenderly and with passion. They are again putting him through the deep spiritual concern that he had already once suffered on their behalf. ‘My little children’ (teknia mou), or possibly ‘my children’ (tekna mou). The words are tender. Compare the use of a similar phrase by John (1 John 2:1 and often). ‘For whom I am again suffering birth... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:20

‘Yes, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice. For I am perplexed about you.’ He wishes that he could be with them again, and then they would hear a change of voice. Probably he means that he hopes that he would then be able to change his tone to a gentler one, but perhaps he is thinking of a sterner voice, for he is perplexed at them and their behaviour. In these words then he reveals the yearning and compassion of the under-shepherd who loves his sheep. How he longs to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21

‘Tell me, you who desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?’ So some of the Galatians want to come ‘under the Law’, being circumcised, observing the Feasts and Feast days, using ritual washings, abstaining from ‘unclean food, and so on? Well, let them now consider the Law. Are they deaf to what the Law actually says? (The Law in the latter phrase refers to the books of the Law, the first five books of the Bible, although sometimes it is used more loosely of the whole of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21-31

A Lesson from the Old Testament Law (Galatians 4:21-31 ). Paul now turns to the Old Testament for examples of what he is trying to say. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:12-20

Galatians 4:12-Proverbs : . An affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way ( cf. 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, and begging them not to desert his faith. In the past, he and they had been good friends. His humiliating illness (epilepsy according to Lightfoot, malaria according to Ramsay, see p. 769 . This attack is recorded nowhere else. His illness may be the stake in flesh of 2 Corinthians 12:7 *), which either drove him at the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:21-31

Galatians 4:21 to Galatians 5:1 . The new thing he tries is an allegorising spiritualising application of an OT story. Slave-born Ishmael mocked ( Genesis 21:10 *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the slave was righteously cast out. God means us to learn from this! Once more it is claimed that the OT supports Paul. A second quasi-allegory is intertwined with the first. According to later Jewish theology, the real Jerusalem, like all other sacred things, existed originally in heaven. And... read more

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