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The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Galatians 4:1-31

Amended Expressions Gal 4:9 In the course of his writing the Apostle said, "After that ye have known God, or rather ." That is the point. The subject is Amended Expressions, self-correction in the use of language. Sometimes we are too fluent, and we are halfway through a sentence before it occurs to us that we are on the wrong track. We start sentences from the wrong end. However skilful we may be in the use of words, sometimes we are halfway through a sentence before we see that the sentence... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Galatians 4:8-18

(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) ¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. (9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? (10) Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. (11) I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. (12)... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:8-9

You served them, who by nature are no gods. These words are to be understood of the converts, who had been Gentiles. --- Known of God. That is, approved and loved by him. (Witham) --- The language of the apostle in this verse is not perhaps strictly precise. The Galatians, whom he addresses, had been converted from paganism, and of course were never subject to the law of Moses. But the apostle, by these words, entreats them not to begin now to serve these weak and useless elements, (as he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:8-11

8-11 The happy change whereby the Galatians were turned from idols to the living God, and through Christ had received the adoption of sons, was the effect of his free and rich grace; they were laid under the greater obligation to keep to the liberty wherewith he had made them free. All our knowledge of God begins on his part; we know him because we are known of him. Though our religion forbids idolatry, yet many practise spiritual idolatry in their hearts. For what a man loves most, and cares... 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 4:8-11

The foolishness of backsliding from this truth: v. 8. Howbeit, then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. v. 9. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? v. 10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. v. 11. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. The apostle here interrupts his doctrinal... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Galatians 4:8-18

C. Rebuke, passing over into Sorrowful ComplaintGalatians 4:8-181. Interrupting the doctrinal exposition, Paul rebukes the incomprehensible backsliding into which they are falling.(Galatians 4:8-11)8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service [were in bondage]10 unto them which by nature are no [not] gods.11 9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known [have been known]12 of God, how turn ye again [how is it that ye are turning again]13 to the weak and beggarly elements... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Galatians 4:1-11

Live as Sons, not as Bondmen Galatians 4:1-11 The Apostle often uses the word elements or “rudiments,” Galatians 4:3 ; Galatians 4:9 ; Colossians 2:8 ; Colossians 2:20 . High and holy as was the Mosaic legislation in itself, yet when it was imposed upon inquiring minds as necessary to salvation, Paul spoke of it as belonging to an age that had passed away and to a system that was already antiquated. The whole purpose of God in sending forth His Son was to redeem us from under the Law, that... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

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