Galatians 4:31-12

The Application (Galatians 4:31 to Galatians 5:12).

Paul will now apply the ideas that he has put forward in depth. For he wants them to recognise what they are turning away from.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So then, brethren - It follows from all this. Not from the allegory regarded as an argument - for Paul does not use it thus - but from the consid...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(8) So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. (8) The conclusion of the former allegory, that we by no means procure...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

So then . Tho texts read, "Wherefore. "
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

31. So then, brethren. He now exhorts the Galatians to prefer the condition of the children of Sarah to that of the children of Hagar; and ha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. So then - We - Jews and Gentiles, who believe on the Lord Jesus, are not ch...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

So then, brethren,— The Apostle, by this allegorical history, shews the Galatians that they who are sons of Agar, that is to say, under the law g...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the f...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

So then] RV 'Wherefore'; since this rejection does not apply to us; we belong to a higher lineage and order. And as we are thus spiritually free (...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further p...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 19 THE STORY OF HAGAR. Galatians 4:21-31 - Galatians 5:1 THE Apostle wishes that he could "change his voice" ( Galatians 4:20 ). Ind...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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 princi...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) В¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, d...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER! what a blessed thing it is, when an heir of God in Christ is got out of the tutorage of a bondage state, and is brought into the...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

BONDAGE OR FREEDOM? ‘So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.’ Galatians 4:31 In this Epistle St. Paul carr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So then, brethren ,.... This is the conclusion of the whole allegory, or the mystical interpretation of Agar and Sarah, and their sons: we are not...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Ver. 31. We are not children, &c. ] q.d. We are in a far better c...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Affectionate Remonstrance. A. D. 56. 21 Te...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The church of the Gentiles was not typified in Hagar, but in Sarah; from whence the scope of the apostle is to conclude, that we are not under the la...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 4:24 . Which things are an allegory. —Under the things spoken of—the two sons, with their contrast of p...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

We are not children of the bondwomn, but of the free. Nature and the supernatural The whole force of this application of the allegory lies in t...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The application of the lesson:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. What the prophet had foretold found its realization in the Church of th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:1 ; 1 John 3:2 ; Galatians 5:1 ; Galatians 5:13 ; Hebrews 2:14 ; Hebrews 2:15 ; John 1:12 ; John 1:13 ; John 8:36
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So then — To sum up all. We — Who believe. Are not children of the bondwoman — Have nothing to do with the servile Mosaic dispensation. But of the...

Related Commentaries of Galatians 4:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes