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Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
So then, brethren. It follows from all this. This conclusion comes not from the allegory regarded as an argument—for Paul does no…
But of the freewoman (αλλα της ελευθερας). We are children of Abraham by faith (3:7).
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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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So then, brethren This is the conclusion of the whole allegory, or the mystical interpretation of Agar and Sarah, an…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Having revealed the mystery concerning the mothers, he now reveals it concerning the sons.
He first distinguishes between the sons, and seco…
