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nevertheless[a] he is under guardians and stewards[b] until the pre-appointed day of the father. In this manner also we, when we were children, were[c] enslaved under the elemental[d] things of the world. But when the fullness of time came, God sent-forth His Son— having come[e] from a woman, having come under the Law

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:2 slave... nevertheless he is. Or, slave, [though] being the [future] owner of all. But he is.
  2. Galatians 4:2 Or, household managers.
  3. Galatians 4:3 Or, had been.
  4. Galatians 4:3 That is, the elementary knowledge of God available in the world before Christ came. Or, the elemental spiritual beings or angels associated with religions. Same in v 9.
  5. Galatians 4:4 Or, ‘having come-into-being’ as a human, and in this sense, ‘having been born’.

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