world
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
( See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8).
Even so we - We who were Jews - for so I think the word here is to be limited, and not extended to the pagan, as Bloomfield supposes. The reasons...
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (b) elements of the world: (b) The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instr...
An heir may be either one who is entering on his inheritance or one who is hereafter to enter on it. In a sense, the Christian inheritance is always...
Even so we . So we also. in bondage . enslaved. Greek. douloo App-190. elements . elementary rules. Greek. stoicheion . Here, Galatians 4:9...
3. Under the elements of the world. Elements may either mean, literally, outward and bodily things, or, metaphorically, rudiments. I prefer...
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Even so we - The whole Jewish people were in a state of nonage wh...
Even so we,— It is plain that St. Paul speaks here in the name of the Jews or Jewish church, which, though God's peculiar people, yet was to pa...
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; Now I say - a phrase introduc...
The Bondage of the Law. Freedom in Christ 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. Paraphra...
Children ] in a state of tutelage under the Law. Elements] RV 'rudiments' (cp. Galatians 4:9 ; Colossians 2:8 ); elementary religious observance...
(1-7) A further description, continued from the last chapter, of the state of wardship, with its restraints and servitude, compared with that Christi...
We. — That is, in the first instance, and specially, the Jews; but the Gentiles are also included. The Apostle is speaking from the point of view o...
Chapter 16 THE HEIR'S COMING OF AGE. Galatians 4:1-7 THE main thesis of the Epistle is now established. Gentile Christians, Paul has shown, ar...
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 ; Col...
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...
(1) В¶ Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; (2) But is under tutors and go...
Even so we ,.... Jews, for of such the apostle is only speaking, and to whom he applies the above case of heirs in minority; it was to the Jews he h...
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Ver. 3. When we were children ] Gr. νηπιοι, infants, babies,...
The apostle, having established the consolatory doctrine that believers, in every age and country of the world, are heirs of the promises made to Abr...
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 posit...
The Redemption by Christ. A. D. 56. 1 Now I...
Such children were all believers, the seed of Abraham; from the first designed to a gospel liberty, but that was not to be fully enjoyed, until the f...
If We Are His We Are Now All Full Sons of God ( Galatians 4:1-7 ). Now he comes to the very heart of the matter, and that is that in Jesus Christ,...
‘So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments (elements) of the world.' All men are under some restraint, whether thr...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 4:1 . The heir, as long as he is a child. —An infant, one under age. Differeth nothing from a servant....
Galatians 4:3 I. Mankind has been in the position of a child, and successive generations have been slowly trained by God's fatherly care, as a pre...
Galatians 4:1-5 . Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tuto...
Galatians 4:1 . The heir, as long as he is a child, and a minor, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. He is under guard...
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. The elements of this world The law was so called. I. In...
EXPOSITION Galatians 4:1 Now I say (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed ei...
The Sonship of the Believers Opposed to the Bondage of the Law. The believers sons and heirs through Christ:
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world;
Acts 15:10 ; Colossians 2:20 ; Colossians 2:8 ; Galatians 3:19 ; Galatians 3:24 ; Galatians 3:25 ; Galatians 2:4 ; Galatians 3:23 ; Galatian...
The Cross and Its Objectives Galatians 3:10-29 ; Galatians 4:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Cross must ever stand forth in the limelight of Bible...
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 co...
So we — The church of God. When we were children — In our minority, under the legal dispensation. Were in bondage — In a kind of servile state. Und...
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elementsa of the world: