“Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. — the legal status is reversed: sonship replaces slavery ('doulos'), and with sonship comes heirship ('klēronomos'), the reversal of the minority condition described in 4:1-2, now realized through adoption into God's family.
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Chiara RussoNote2mo agoFrom Slave to Son
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. The change is categorical. Not a better servant. Not a well-treated slave. A completely different sta...
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Sofia AndradeNote1mo agoMercy and justice - Galatians 4
God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing - both the anguish and the ho...
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Anna WestbrookNote1mo agoThe cost of discipleship - Galatians 4
What a reminder that God's ways are not our ways. The imagery here is agricultural - the original audience would have immediately understood the metaphor of sowing, waiting, and harvesting. The imager...
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