ἡμεῖς … ἐσμέν (cf. Galatians 4:31) Text. Rec. with אACDcKLP etc. ὑμεῖς … ἐστέ W.H. margin with BD*G.

28. Having shown in Galatians 4:23-27 that we as believers are like Isaac, children of the free woman, indeed the Jerusalem above, St Paul in this one verse recalls the fact that we, also like Isaac, have our origin in promise, a subject already discussed at length in Galatians 3:16-29.

ἡμεῖς δὲ … ἐσμέν. See notes on Textual Criticism, ἡμ. emphatic as in Galatians 4:26.

ἀδελφοί (Galatians 1:11). St Paul gladly returns to this term of faith in their real and present standing. There can hardly be any thought in the word of all believers, you Gentiles and we Jews, being brothers as sons of one mother, as Zahn suggests (p. 241).

κατὰ Ἰσαὰκ. Apparently after the category of Isaac, cf. Hebrews 5:6; Hebrews 7:11.

ἐπαγγελίας τέκνα ἐσμέν, Romans 9:8. We are not dependent on the Law, but on God’s promise, Galatians 3:22.

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