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In this manner also we, when we were children, were[a] enslaved under the elemental[b] things of the world. But when the fullness of time came, God sent-forth His Son— having come[c] from a woman, having come under the Law in order that He might redeem the ones under the Law, in order that we [all] might receive the adoption.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:3 Or, had been.
  2. 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.
  3. Galatians 4:4 Or, ‘having come-into-being’ as a human, and in this sense, ‘having been born’.

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