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3 Even so we, when we were children, awere in bondage under the elements of the world.  
4 But awhen the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, bborn cof a woman, dborn under the law,  
5 ato redeem those who were under the law, bthat we might receive the adoption as sons.  
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth athe Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,1 “Abba, Father!”  
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, aand if a son, then an heir of God2 through Christ.  

Fears for the Church

8 But then, indeed, awhen you did not know God, byou served those which by nature are not gods.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Galatians 4:5

To redeem them - ͅ· To pay down a price for them, and thus buy them off from the necessity of observing circumcision, offering brute sacrifices, performing different ablutions, etc., etc.

That we might receive the adoption of sons - Which adoption we could not obtain by the law; for it is the Gospel only that puts us among the children, and gives us a place in the heavenly family. On the nature of adoption see the notes on Romans 8:15.




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