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**Verse 1**
*Though he be lord of all;* though he is to inherit all.

**Verse 3**
*The elements of the world.* The Jewish institutions are obviously intended by this expression; but why they are, so designated is not very clear.

**Verse 4**
*The fulness of the time;* the full time predicted.--*Made under the law;* born a. Jew, and consequently under the Mosaic institutions.

**Verse 5**
*To redeem them,* &c.; thus showing that they owe their redemption not to their Judaism, but to their Christianity.

**Verse 8**
The apostle here appears to address the Gentile portion of the Galatian churches.--*Ye did service unto,* ye were in bondage unto.

**Verse 10**
*Ye observe;* that is, religiously; depending upon such observances for acceptance with God.

**Verse 12**
This passage is evidently elliptical, and is considered obscure.

**Verse 13**
*Through infirmity of the flesh;* that is, suffering under infirmity of the flesh. (Comp. [2 Corinthians 12:7](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/12/7).)

**Verse 14**
*As Christ Jesus;* as clothed with his authority.

**Verse 17**
*They;* the false teachers.--*Zealously affect you;* pretend to be ardently interested in your welfare.--*Exclude you;* separate you; that is, from me.

**Verse 18**
*Always in a good thing;* that is, to adhere firmly and steadily to what is right.--*Not only,* &c.; referring to what he had said in [Galatians 4:15](../../../kjv/galatians/4/15).

**Verse 19**
*Of whom I travail in birth;* for whom I feel the deepest solicitude and anxiety.

**Verse 20**
*To change my voice;* that is, to administer admonition and reproof to them, which it had not been necessary to do when he was with them before.

**Verse 22**
*A bond-maid;* Hagar.

**Verse 24**
*An allegory;* that is, may be regarded as such.--*These are the two* *covenants;* may be considered as representing the two covenants.

**Verse 25**
*Is Mount Sinai;* that is, represents Mount Sinai in this illustration.

**Verse 26**
*Jerusalem which is above;* the spiritual Jerusalem; that is, the body of believers under the gospel.

**Verse 27**
*It is written;* [Isaiah 54:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/54/1).

**Verse 29**
*He that was born after the flesh;* Ishmael, the son of Hagar.--*Him that was born after the Spirit;* Isaac.

**Verse 30**
*Cast out,* &c The rejection of Hagar thus represents the rejection of the bondage and servitude entailed by the Jewish law.

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