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The Trinity's Teamwork
Commentators highlight how this verse reveals the teamwork of the Trinity in your salvation. God the Father sent the Son to make you a child of God (your objective status), and then He sent the Spirit of the Son into your heart so you can experience that reality (your subjective assurance). Your adoption is a coordinated act of divine love from all three persons of the Godhead.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 4:6
18th Century
Theologian
And because you are sons. As a consequence of your being adopted into the family of God and being regarded as His sons, it follows as a pa…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 4:6
Because ye are sons (οτ εστε υιο). This is the reason for sending forth the Son (4:4 and here). We were "sons" in God's elective p…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 4:6
19th Century
Bishop
It is because you are sons that you are able to address your Heavenly Father in such genuine accents of filial emotion. It is not you who speak, bu…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 4:6
Paul has already pointed out the first great redemptive act of God in history: God sent his Son. Here he adds the second act: “Because you are sons…
John Calvin
On Galatians 4:6
16th Century
Theologian
And because ye are sons. The adoption which he had mentioned is proven to belong to the Galatians by the following argument. This adoption…
John Gill
On Galatians 4:6
17th Century
Pastor
And because you are sons
That is of God, so some copies read; and the Ethiopic version, "inasmuch as you are his son…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 4:1–7
17th Century
Minister
The apostle deals plainly with those who urged the law of Moses together with the gospel of Christ, and endeavored to bring believers under its bon…