“Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.”
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! — Paul's accusation concerns the Galatians' adoption of a Jewish liturgical calendar ('hēmerai, mēnes, kairoi, eniautos' — days, months, seasons, years), an indication that they are indeed accepting circumcision and Torah-observance under Judaizing influence.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:10
“Howbeit at that time not knowing God, you were bondage to them which by nature are no gods. But now that you have come to know God — or rather to be known by God — how do you turn back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments whereunto you desire to be in bondage over again.” Here turning to the Gentile believers he says that it is an idolatry, this rigid observance of days, and now incurs a severe punishment. To enforce this, and inspire them with a deeper anxiety, he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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