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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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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 4:10
18th Century
Theologian
You observe. The object of this verse is to specify some of the things to which they had become enslaved.
Days. T…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 4:10
Ye observe (παρατηρεισθε). Present middle indicative of old verb to stand beside and watch carefully, sometimes with evil intent a…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 4:10
19th Century
Bishop
You observe.—A compound word, signifying not only “to observe,” but “to observe scrupulously.” The word is used by Joseph…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 4:10
The Judaizers were probably not intentionally trying to enslave the Galatians, and it is even more probable that the Galatians did not regard their…
John Calvin
On Galatians 4:10
16th Century
Theologian
You observe days. He cites as an instance one description of “elements”: the observance of days. No condemnation is given here to the obse…
John Gill
On Galatians 4:10
17th Century
Pastor
You observe days, and months, and times, and years . Lest the apostle should be thought to suggest, without foundation, t…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 4:8–11
17th Century
Minister
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…