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You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
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Identifying the Rituals
Commentators unanimously identify the 'days, months, seasons, and years' as Jewish religious observances like weekly Sabbaths, new moon festivals, annual feasts (Passover, Pentecost), and sabbatical years. The Galatians were adopting these rituals not as cultural heritage, but as a necessary part of their salvation, effectively returning to a system of works.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You observe. The object of this verse is to specify some of the things to which they had become enslaved.
Days. T…
Ye observe (παρατηρεισθε). Present middle indicative of old verb to stand beside and watch carefully, sometimes with evil intent a…
19th Century
Anglican
You observe.—A compound word, signifying not only “to observe,” but “to observe scrupulously.” The word is used by Joseph…
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The Judaizers were probably not intentionally trying to enslave the Galatians, and it is even more probable that the Galatians did not regard their…
16th Century
Protestant
You observe days. He cites as an instance one description of “elements”: the observance of days. No condemnation is given here to the obse…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You observe days, and months, and times, and years . Lest the apostle should be thought to suggest, without foundation, t…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
