Galatians 4 KJV: The Spirit of Adoption and the Mother of Freedom
Galatians 4 documents the transition of the believer from the status of a minor under a guardian to a full heir through the Spirit of adoption. It employs a powerful allegory involving Sarah and Hagar to illustrate the incompatibility of the covenant of Law and the covenant of Promise. Paul expresses his deep pastoral anguish over the Galatians' desire to return to the 'beggarly elements' of religious slavery.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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