Galatians 4:1-14

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:5

4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the {e} adoption of sons.(e) The adoption of the sons of God is from everlasting, but is revealed and shown in the time appointed for it. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:6

4:6 {3} And because ye are sons, God hath {f} sent forth the {g} Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.(3) He shows that we are free and set at liberty in such a way that in the meantime we must be governed by the Spirit of Christ, who while reigning in our hearts, may teach us the true service of the Father. But this is not to serve, but rather to enjoy true liberty, as it is fitting for sons and heirs.(f) By that which follows he gathers that which went before: for if we... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:7

4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a {h} servant, but a son; and if a son, then an {i} heir of God through Christ.(h) The word "servant" is not taken here for one that lives in sin, which is appropriate for the unfaithful, but for one that is yet under the ceremonies of the Law, which is proper to the Jews.(i) Partaker of his blessings. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:8

4:8 {4} Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.(4) He applies the former doctrine to the Galatians, with a special rebuke: for in comparison with them, the Jews might have pretended some excuse as men that were born and brought up in that service of the Law. But seeing that the Galatians were taken and called out of idolatry to Christian liberty, what pretence might they have to go back to those impotent and beggarly elements? read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:9

4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and {k} beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire {l} again to be in bondage?(k) They are called impotent and beggarly ceremonies, being considered apart by themselves without Christ: and again, by that means they gave good testimony that they were beggars in Christ, for when men fall back from Christ to ceremonies, it is nothing else but to cast away riches and to follow beggary.(l) By going... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:12

4:12 {5} Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.(5) He moderates and qualifies those things in which he might have seemed to have spoken somewhat sharply, very skilfully and divinely declaring his good will toward them in such a way, that the Galatians could not but either be utterly hopeless when they read these things, or acknowledge their own lack of steadfastness with tears, and desire pardon. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:13

4:13 Ye know how through {m} infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.(m) Many afflictions. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Galatians 4:14

4:14 And my {n} temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as {o} Christ Jesus.(n) Those daily troubles with which the Lord tried me among you.(o) For the sake of my ministry. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 4:1-31

HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrasted to the position under the Law, promise being then an object of indefinite hope, a prospect unfulfilled. Verses 1 Timothy 3:0 show the Jewish position under law, the position even of the believer then, for it is of believers he is speaking. Though the child is heir and lord of all, yet in... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:1-31

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH Having established his authority as an apostle, and his right to expound the Gospel he had received, Paul now enters upon the elucidation of the latter, or rather proceeds to the defense of its cardinal teaching. This is the doctrine that man is justified only by faith in Jesus Christ without the works of the law. The same doctrine was enlarged upon in Romans, only there he was expressing the Divine side of its truth while here he is showing the human side. There he... read more

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