Galatians 4:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And if a son, then an heir, &c.— From the Galatians having received the Spirit, as appears ch. Galatians 3:2. St. Paul argues, that they are the Sons of God without the law; consequently, heirs of the promise without the law: "For," says he, Galatians 4:1-6 the Jews themselves were obliged "to be redeemed from the bondage of the law by Jesus Christ, that as sons they might attain to the inheritance; but you, Galatians, (he goes on,) have, by the Spirit which is given you through the ministry of the gospel, an evidence that God is your Father; and being sons, are free from the bondage of the law, and heirs without it." St. Paul uses the same sort of reasoning to the Romans, ch. Romans 8:14-17.