Jiālātaìshū 4:31

31 Dìxiōng men , zhèyàng kàn lái , wǒmen bú shì shǐnǚ de érnǚ , nǎi shì zì zhǔ fùrén de érnǚ le .

Jiālātaìshū 4:31 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 4:31

So then, brethren
This is the conclusion of the whole allegory, or the mystical interpretation of Agar and Sarah, and their sons:

we are not children of the bondwoman;
the figure of the first covenant, which gendered to bondage, and typified the Jews in a state, and under a spirit of bondage to the law; New Testament saints are not under it, are delivered from it, and are dead unto it:

but of the free;
of Sarah, that was a type of the new and second covenant; and answered to the Gospel church, which is free from the yoke of the law; and whose children believers in Christ are, by whom they are made free from all thraldom and slavery; so the children of the mistress and of the maidservant are opposed to each other by the Jews ^F11. The Vulgate Latin version adds to this verse from the beginning of the next chapter, "with the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free"; and the Ethiopic version, "because Christ hath made us free"; and begin the next chapter thus, "therefore stand, and be not entangled" and so the Alexandrian copy, and three of Stephens's.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 152. 1.

Jiālātaìshū 4:31 In-Context

29 Dāngshí nà àn zhe xuèqì shēng de , bīpò le nà àn zhe Shènglíng shēng de . xiànzaì yĕ shì zhèyàng .

30 Ránér jīng shang shì zĕnme shuō de ne . shì shuō , bǎ shǐnǚ hé tā érzi gǎn chū qù , yīnwei shǐnǚ de érzi , bùkĕ yǔ zì zhǔ fùrén de érzi yītóng chéngshòu chǎnyè .

31 Dìxiōng men , zhèyàng kàn lái , wǒmen bú shì shǐnǚ de érnǚ , nǎi shì zì zhǔ fùrén de érnǚ le .