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GALATIANS CHAPTER 4
Gal_4:1-3 The Jews were for a while held under the law, as an
heir under his guardian till he be of age.
Gal_4:4-7 But Christ came to redeem those that were under the
law, and to give both to Jew and Gentile the adoption,
and consequently the freedom, of sons.
Gal_4:8-10 Paul therefore reproveth the Galatians, who from
serving idols had been received of God, for falling
back to the bondage of legal observances.
Gal_4:11-20 He expresseth his fears and tender regard for them,
and calleth to mind their former respect and good will
to him, from which he admonisheth them not to be
seduced in his absence.
Gal_4:21-31 He allegorically describeth the Jewish and Christian
churches under the types of Agar and Sara, and
inferreth that we, being children of the free-woman,
are free.
The apostle had before determined, that the whole body of such as believed in Jesus Christ, were that seed of Abraham to which the promise was made, and so heirs of the promises made to him; yet so, that, as it is among men, though a child be a great heir, and lord of a great estate, yet while he is under age he is used like a servant; so the time of the law being as it were the time of believers’ nonage, those who lived in that time were used like servants.