But is under tutors and governors, [a]until the time appointed of the Father.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the [b]rudiments of the world.

[c]But when the [d]fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a [e]woman, and made under the Law,

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:2 This is added, because he that is always under a tutor or governor, may hardly be counted a freeman.
  2. Galatians 4:3 The Law is called rudiments, because that by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by rudiments, and afterward poured out his holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.
  3. Galatians 4:4 He uttereth and declareth many things at once, to wit, that this tutorship was ended at his time, that curious men may leave to ask, why that schoolmastership lasted so long. And moreover, that we are not sons by nature, but by adoption, and that in that Son of God, who therefore took upon him our flesh, that we might be made his brethren.
  4. Galatians 4:4 The time is said to be full, when all parts of it are past and ended, and therefore Christ could not have come either sooner or later.
  5. Galatians 4:4 He calleth Mary a woman, in respect of the sex, and not as the word is used in a contrary sense to a virgin still.

The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery(A) under the elemental spiritual forces[a] of the world.(B) But when the set time had fully come,(C) God sent his Son,(D) born of a woman,(E) born under the law,(F)

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  1. Galatians 4:3 Or under the basic principles