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The Grand Conclusion
Commentators agree that this verse is the grand conclusion of Paul's entire argument. Our identity as "children of the freewoman" is the logical outcome of the gospel. It signifies that believers belong to the new covenant of grace and are free from the bondage of the old covenant of law.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 4:31
18th Century
Theologian
So then, brethren. It follows from all this. This conclusion comes not from the allegory regarded as an argument—for Paul does no…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 4:31
But of the freewoman (αλλα της ελευθερας). We are children of Abraham by faith (3:7).
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 4:31
Of such are the Galatians. The “therefore” of this verse sums up the whole allegory and indeed the entire section of Paul’s doctrinal argument. The…
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John Calvin
On Galatians 4:31
16th Century
Theologian
So then, brethren. He now exhorts the Galatians to prefer the condition of the children of Sarah to that of the children of Hagar; and hav…
John Gill
On Galatians 4:31
17th Century
Pastor
So then, brethren
This is the conclusion of the whole allegory, or the mystical interpretation of Agar and Sarah, an…
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…