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Galatians 4:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Galatians 4:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 4
God’s Free Children in Christ.[a] 1 I mean that as long as the heir is not of age,[b] he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,
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- 4:1–7 What Paul has argued in Gal 3:26–29 is now elaborated in terms of the Christian as the heir (Gal 4:1, 7; cf. Gal 3:18, 29) freed from control by others. Again, as in Gal 3:2–5, the proof that Christians are children of God is the gift of the Spirit of Christ relating them intimately to God.
- 4:1, 3 Not of age: an infant or minor.
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