Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Persecuted (ediwken). Imperfect active of diwkw, to pursue, to persecute. Genesis 21:9 has in Hebrew "laughing," but the LXX has "mocking." The Jewish tradition represents Ishmael as shooting arrows at Isaac.
So now (outov kai nun) the Jews were persecuting Paul and all Christians (I Thessalonians 2:15 f.).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Galatians 4:29:
John 15:20
Hebrews 12:22
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