...apostle thus expostulated with some who it appears had fallen from the true faith in these respects : " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are...and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have...

...This is a true description of the 8 those WHO are not gods by nature.1 (See Eph. ii. 3. note 2.) 9 But now after that ye have known God, or rather are...and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 1 1 I am afraid of you, lest...

...Christ. 8 Howbeit, then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature are no gods. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are...and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage .' PARAPHRASE. into your hearts, which enables you to cry, Abba, Father. 7 So that thou...

...iii. 3.) ' " Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law ?" (Chap. iv. 21.) " How turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ?" (Chap. iv. 9.) It cannot be thought extraordinary that St. Paul should resist this...

...Such a use of sovereign preventing grace is made by the apostle in his epistle to the Galatians : " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God." By this the apostle designed to teach them, not to glory over those who still remained in a heathen...

...destroy that attachment which their adherents manifested to ceremonies. Galatians iv. 9, 10, 1 1, " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather,...of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Clements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and...

...of God, could continue no longer than till Christ should come. He puts the pungent question to them, Now after that ye have known God, or rather are known...and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? It is evident that by these elements he means circumcision, and all the train of ccrmonies...

...law till Christ eame: 5 but Christ freed MS : 22 we are the sons of Abraham by the free wo'/irtn. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are...of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,e whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times,...

...fnlfilinent of outward ordinances ; and such appears to have been the judgment of the apostle Paul. " But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are...and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed...

...than they had, before they had heard of him and learned of him. Says the apostle to the Galatians : " Gal. iv. 9- They have juster notions of the future state of recompenses, than others. Through Christ,...