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but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

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A.T. Robertson

A.T. Robertson

A.T.Robertson

19th Century
Southern Baptist
19th Century

Now that ye have come to know God (νυν δε γνοντες). Fine example of the ingressive second aorist active participle of γινωσκω, com…

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

But now, etc. The meaning is that since they had been made free from their degrading servitude in worshipping false gods, and had been adm…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Known God.—The word for “known” is different from the one translated that way in the verse above. It brings out more distinctly th…

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor'sBible Commentary

20th Century
20th Century

For the third time (cf. 3:23ff.; 4:lff.) Paul speaks of the former enslaved state of the Galatians. His reason this time is to establish the folly …

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

But now, after that ye have known God. No language can express the base ingratitude of departing from God, once he has been known. What is…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

But now, after that you have known God ,
&c,] God in Christ, as their covenant God and Father, through the preaching…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The happy change by which the Galatians were turned from idols to the living God, and through Christ had received the adoption of sons, was the eff…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

Having revealed the preeminence of the gift of grace and explained it with a human example, the Apostle here rebukes the Galatians, who scorned thi…

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