Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 4:21
VERSE 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
VERSE 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Verse 21. _YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW_] Ye who desire to incorporate the Mosaic institutions with Christianity, and thus bring yourselves into bondage to circumcision, and a great variety of o...
TELL ME ... - In order to show fully the nature and the effect of the Law, Paul here introduces an illustration from an important fact in the Jewish history. This allegory has given great perplexity t...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
GALATIANS 4:21 TO GALATIANS 5:1. The new thing he tries is an allegorising spiritualising application of an OT story. Slave-born Ishmael mocked (Genesis 21:10 *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the sl...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands written in it that Abraham had two sons; one was the son of the slave girl and...
The Allegory of the two Covenants, pointing to liberty only in Christ 21. The final argument is an appeal to Scripture, to that very _law_to which the Galatians were desiring to subject themselves. If...
Although St Paul is at a loss about the Galatians (Galatians 4:20) he will try yet another method. He appeals to the very Law itself under which they were wishing to be. The argument of the following...
21–5:1. _Another appeal, based upon the principles underlying the history of Hagar and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac. Christ set us free; stand fast therefore in this freedom_ (Galatians 4:21) You wis...
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_GALATIANS 4:21_.— The Apostle exhorts the Galatians to _stand fast in the liberty with which Christ hath made them free;_ shewing those who are so zealous for the law, that if they mind what they rea...
Sarah and Hagar Galatians 4:21-31 TEXT 4:21-24 (21) Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and on...
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? DESIRE - of your own accord madly courting that which must condemn you. DO YE NOT HEAR - do ye not consider the inner sense of...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
The very Law in which the Judaisers trust is shown to be against their contentions....
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
Paul became stricter again in the rest of this chapter. He was a *Jew. He had studied the *Jewish law. He understood it very well. He knew about the law’s strict demands on people who obeyed it. The l...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further proof that freedom is the essential character of the...
YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW. — A direct appeal to those who were inclined to give way to the Judaising party. DO YE NOT HEAR THE LAW? — “Hear” is probably to be taken in the sense of “give heed...
CHAPTER 19 THE STORY OF HAGAR. Galatians 4:21 - Galatians 5:1 THE Apostle wishes that he could "change his voice" (Galatians 4:20). Indeed he has changed it more than once. "Any one who looks closel...
PATRIARCHAL HISTORY IS EMPLOYED TO ILLUSTRATE THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, WHO ARE THE PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM, BY JEWS WHO ARE HIS SEED AFTER THE FLESH. HAGAR AND HER SON, SARAH AND HER SON, FURNI...
“CHILDREN OF PROMISE” Galatians 4:21 In this allegory of Sarah and Hagar, it is important to notice that Paul is not dealing with the principle of evil within our hearts, but with the attempt to min...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
(6) Tell me, ye that (u) desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (6) The false apostles urged this, that unless the Gentiles were circumcised Christ could profit them nothing at all, and a...
(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) В¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
21._Tell me_. Having given exhortations adapted to touch the feelings, he follows up his former doctrine by an illustration of great beauty. Viewed simply as an argument, it would not be very powerful...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
TELL ME, YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW,.... Not merely to obey it, as holy, just, and good, from a principle of love, and to testify subjection and gratitude to God; so all believers desire to bc...
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? Ver. 21. _Ye that desire, &c._] That are ambitious of slavery, of beggary, Galatians 4:9. How many have we at this day that rejoic...
Gal. 4:21-23. "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond maid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of t...
_Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law_ Of Moses, as the rule of your justification; _do ye not hear the law?_ Regard what it says? how it teaches that Abraham's children, by faith, who are heir...
HEAR THE LAW; attend to and receive the instruction which may be drawn from this portion of it to which I invite your attention....
An urgent appeal to an Old Testament example:...
TELL ME, YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YE NOT HEAR THE LAW?...
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. Notice Abraham's age: 75 - P...
21-27 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an allegory, wherein, beside t...
TELL ME, YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW; you that cannot be content to receive Jesus Christ alone, for justification; but have a mind to maintain a necessity of obedience to the law of circumcisio...
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ai," in relation to the synagogue of the Jews, according to the law, "which gendereth to bondage"-"the other gendereth" (to liberty, being raised) above all principal...
Galatians 4:21 Tell G3004 (G5720) me G3427 desire G2309 (G5723) be G1511 (G5750) under G5259 law...
A LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW (GALATIANS 4:21). Paul now turns to the Old Testament for examples of what he is trying to say....
‘Tell me, you who desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?' So some of the Galatians want to come ‘under the Law', being circumcised, observing the Feasts and Feast days, using ritual wash...
The Apostle resumes his argument for the superiority of the gospel over the law, and illustrates the difference of the two by an allegorical interpretation of the history of Sarah and Hagar, and their...
Galatians 4:21. TELL ME. This makes the question more urgent and compels the Judaizing Galatians to an evangelical answer. YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER LAW, DO YE NOT HEAR THE LAW? Ye who are so anxiou...
THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW (ο υπο νομον θελοντες εινα). "Under law" (no article), as in Galatians 3:23; Galatians 4:4, legalistic system. Paul views them as on the point of surrender to legalis...
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
DO YOU NOT HEAR? "The Law itself teaches that Abraham's descendants by faith, who will receive all God has for his sons, are not slaves to The Law!...
_Tell me._ THE VALUE OF A POINTED QUESTION The question that prompts us to tell what we know sharpens our knowledge; and, similarly, the question that makes us tell what we are doing may greatly infl...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:21 Paul again emphasizes the difference between being a free child of God and being a slave to the law, sin, and false gods. Abraham’s son Ishmael—technically the firstbo...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:24. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY.—Under the things spoken of—the two sons, with their contrast of parentage and position—there lies a spiritual meaning. G...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:23; Galatians 3:24; Galatians 4:9; Joh
Tell me. He plunges into the subject without introduction, and with a direct appeal. Desire [θ ε λ ο ν τ ε ς]. Are bent on being under the law. See on verse 9. Under the law [υ π ο ν ο μ ο ν]. For no...
TURNING UNTO LAW-WORKS Galatians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we could turn back to the beggarly elements of salvation by law...
Do ye not hear the law — Regard what it says....
Our apostle here proceeds to the end of this chapter, in showing the Galatians that it was the design of God, at the coming of Christ, to abolish the legal dispensation, and free men from the servitud...