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Law and Grace Cannot Coexist
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse powerfully illustrates the incompatibility of legalism and grace. Quoting Genesis, Paul argues that just as Ishmael (representing the covenant of Law) could not share the inheritance with Isaac (representing the covenant of promise), so too those who rely on the Law cannot share in the inheritance of salvation that comes through faith in Christ alone. The two systems are mutually exclusive.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 4:30
18th Century
Theologian
Nevertheless. But, (alla.)
What says the Scripture? What does the Scripture teach on the subject? What lesson doe…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 4:30
Cast out (εκβαλε). Second aorist active imperative of εκβαλλω. Quotation from Ge 21:10 (Sarah to Abraham) and confirmed in 21:12 b…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 4:30
19th Century
Bishop
What says the scripture?—In Genesis 21:10 the words are put into the mouth of Sarah, but they are afterwards endorsed by the divi…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 4:30
Second, the Christians at Galatia must recognize the incompatibility of manmade and God-made religion and respond by casting out the legalizers. Th…
John Calvin
On Galatians 4:30
16th Century
Theologian
But what says the Scripture? There was some consolation in knowing that we only share the lot of our father Isaac; but it is a still great…
John Gill
On Galatians 4:30
17th Century
Pastor
Nevertheless, what says the Scripture ?
&c.] This is a Talmudic form of citing Scriptures, and answers to (
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 4:28–31
17th Century
Minister
This history, having been explained, is now applied. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. If the pri…