Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God. Having learned the knowledge
of the true God.
Or rather are known of God. God, himself, had sought them through
the gospel, and had offered them eternal life. They knew God because
God had taken note of them and sent them the gospel.
How turn ye again? How can they, known of God, called from the
bondage of those that are not gods (Galatians 4:8), turn back again to
bondage? The bondage referred to is that of the law. They had been
delivered from the bondage of idolatry, but were relapsing into another
bondage.
The weak and beggarly elements. Weak, because they have no spiritual
power to strengthen us; beggarly, because they have no rich promises
like the gospel; elements, because they belong to a rudimentary
condition, to an undeveloped state to the childhood of the race.
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Galatians 4:9
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