Galatians 4 Scofield
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4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
“little children”
The allegory Gal 4:22–31 is addressed to justified but immature believers (cf) 1 Cor 3:1; 1 Cor 3:2 who, under the influence of legalistic teachers, "desire to be under the law," and has, therefore, no application to a sinner seeking justification. It raises and answers, for the fifth time in this Epistle, the question, Is the believer under the law?; Gal 2:19–21; Gal 3:1–29; Gal 3:26; Gal 4:4–6; Gal 4:9–31.
4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
“Agar”
Hagar.
4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
“Agar”
Hagar.
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4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
“world”
kosmos = mankind. (See Scofield "Matt 4:8")