Galatians 4:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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. Under the elements of the world — Under the typical observances of the law, which were like the first elements of grammar, the A B C of children; and were of so gross a nature, as hardly to carry our thoughts beyond this world.