“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.”
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. — Paul's direct application: the Galatian believers, like Isaac, are 'tekna epangelias' (children of promise), born not of flesh but of God's word, the promise inaugurated in Abraham and realized in Christ.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:28
“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.” It is not merely that the Church was barren like Sarah, or became a mother of many children like her, but she bore them in the way Sarah did. As it was not nature but the promise of God which rendered Sarah a mother, [for the word of God which said, “At the time appointed I will return unto you, and Sarah shall have a son,” Genesis 18:14 this entered into the womb and formed the babe,] so also in our regeneration it…
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