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geneva@Galatians:4:1 @ Now (note:)He declares by another twofold similitude, that which he said before concerning the keeper and schoolmaster. For, he says, the Law (that is, the whole government of God's house according to the Law) was as it were a tutor or overseer appointed for a time. And when that protection and overseeing which was but for a time is ended, we would at length come to be at our own liberty, and would live as children, and not as servants. Moreover, he shows along the way, that the governance of the Law was as it were the basics, and as certain principles, in comparison with the doctrine of the Gospel.(:note) I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

geneva@Galatians:4:2 @ But is under tutors and governors (note:)This is added because he that is always under a tutor or governor may hardly be considered a freeman.(:note) until the time appointed of the father.

geneva@Galatians:4:3 @ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (note:)The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by elements, and afterward poured out his Holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.(:note) elements of the world:

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geneva@Galatians:4:5 @ To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the (note:)The adoption of the sons of God is from everlasting, but is revealed and shown in the time appointed for it.(:note) adoption of sons.

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geneva@Galatians:4:7 @ Wherefore thou art no more a (note:)The word «servant» is not taken here for one that lives in sin, which is appropriate for the unfaithful, but for one that is yet under the ceremonies of the Law, which is proper to the Jews.(:note) servant, but a son; and if a son, then an Partaker of his blessings. heir of God through Christ.

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geneva@Galatians:4:9 @ But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and (note:)They are called impotent and beggarly ceremonies, being considered apart by themselves without Christ: and again, by that means they gave good testimony that they were beggars in Christ, for when men fall back from Christ to ceremonies, it is nothing else but to cast away riches and to follow beggary.(:note) beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire By going backward. again to be in bondage?

geneva@Galatians:4:10 @ Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.

geneva@Galatians:4:11 @ I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

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geneva@Galatians:4:13 @ Ye know how through (note:)Many afflictions.(:note) infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

geneva@Galatians:4:14 @ And my (note:)Those daily troubles with which the Lord tried me among you.(:note) temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as For the sake of my ministry. Christ Jesus.

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geneva@Galatians:4:16 @ Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?

geneva@Galatians:4:17 @ They zealously affect you, (note:)For they are jealous over you for their own benefit.(:note) [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, That they may transfer all your love from me to themselves. that ye might affect them.

geneva@Galatians:4:18 @ But [it is] good to be (note:)He sets his own true and good love, which he earnestly held for them, against the wicked vicious love of the false apostles.(:note) zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.

geneva@Galatians:4:19 @ My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

geneva@Galatians:4:20 @ I desire to be present with you now, and to (note:)Use other words among you.(:note) change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

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geneva@Galatians:4:22 @ For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

geneva@Galatians:4:23 @ But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the (note:)As all men are, and by the common course of nature.(:note) flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by By virtue of the promise, which Abraham laid hold on for himself and his true seed, for otherwise Abraham and Sara were past the begetting and bearing of children. promise.

geneva@Galatians:4:24 @ Which things are an allegory: for (note:)These represent and symbolize.(:note) these are the They are called two covenants, one of the Old Testament, and another of the New: which were not two indeed, but in respect of the times, and the diversity of the manner of ruling. two covenants; the one from the mount He makes mention of Sinai, because that covenant was made in that mountain, of which mountain Hagar was a symbol. Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

geneva@Galatians:4:25 @ For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and (note:)Look how the case stands between Hagar and her children; even so stands it between Jerusalem and hers.(:note) answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and That is, Sinai. is in bondage with her children.

geneva@Galatians:4:26 @ But Jerusalem which is (note:)Which is excellent, and of great worth.(:note) above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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geneva@Galatians:4:28 @ Now we, brethren, (note:)After the manner of Isaac, who is the first begotten of the heavenly Jerusalem, as Israel is of the slavish synagogue.(:note) as Isaac was, are the children of That seed to which the promise belongs. promise.

geneva@Galatians:4:29 @ But as then he that was born after the (note:)By the common course of nature.(:note) flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the By the virtue of God's promise and after a spiritual manner. Spirit, even so [it is] now.

geneva@Galatians:4:30 @ But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

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