“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?”
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? — Paul shifts to a new rhetorical tactic: a challenge directed at those committed to the law; he will prove from Torah itself that the law supports freedom, not bondage.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:21
“Tell me,” he says, “you that desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?” He says rightly, “you that desire,” for the matter was not one of a proper and orderly succession of things but of their own unseasonable contentiousness. It is the Book of Creation which he here calls the Law, which name he often gives to the whole Old Testament.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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