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Gal 4:8. Τότε, then) when we were children [Gal 4:1].-οὐκ εἰδότες Θεὸν, not knowing God) The very wretched state of the Gentiles.-ἐδουλεύσατε, ye did service) being under a different bondage from that of the Jews, Gal 4:3. You worshipped gods not true with a worship not true. You had not been accustomed to the Mosaic worship; and therefore it is more a matter of wonder, that you now desire [affect] it. You attained to the truth without those elements, and now at length [for the first time] you follow them.-τοῖς μὴ φύσει οὖσι θεοῖς) So the LXX., τῷ μὴ ὄντι θεῷ, 2Ch 13:9.