Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the [a]rudiments of the world.

[b]But when the [c]fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a [d]woman, and made under the Law,

That he might redeem them which were under the Law, that we (A)might receive the [e]adoption of the sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:3 The Law is called rudiments, because that by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by rudiments, and afterward poured out his holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.
  2. Galatians 4:4 He uttereth and declareth many things at once, to wit, that this tutorship was ended at his time, that curious men may leave to ask, why that schoolmastership lasted so long. And moreover, that we are not sons by nature, but by adoption, and that in that Son of God, who therefore took upon him our flesh, that we might be made his brethren.
  3. Galatians 4:4 The time is said to be full, when all parts of it are past and ended, and therefore Christ could not have come either sooner or later.
  4. Galatians 4:4 He calleth Mary a woman, in respect of the sex, and not as the word is used in a contrary sense to a virgin still.
  5. Galatians 4:5 The adoption of the sons of God, is from everlasting, but is revealed and showed in the time appointed for it.

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