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THE MESSAGE
Galatians 4:10
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You observe days and months and seasons and years.
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Just look at y'all now though. You are trying to make God happy by celebrating certain days or months or seasons or years.
You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
Ye observe days and months and times and years.
You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.
You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have laboured upon you in vain.
You scrupulously observe days and months, special seasons, and years.
Yee obserue dayes, and moneths, and times, and yeeres.
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Ye obserue dayes and monethes, and tymes and yeares.
observing as you do, the days, the moons, the feasts and years.
[For example,] you observe [particular] days and months and seasons and years.
Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years!
Ye observe dayes and monethes and tymes and yeares.
You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
You still follow teachings about special days, months, seasons, and years.
You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
You even celebrate certain days, months, seasons, and years.
You observe special days, months, seasons and years!
You observe days and months and seasons and years!
Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.
You still observe days and months and times and years.
You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
You are observing days, months, seasons, and years.Romans 14:5; Colossians 2:16;">[xr]
Days, and months, and times, you observe.
Ye observe days and moons, and set times, and years!
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years.
You do special things on certain days and months and years and times of the year.
Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
You are observing special days, and months, and seasons, and years.
Days, ye do narrowly observer, and months, and seasons, and years: -
You observe days and months and times, and years.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.
Ye obserue dayes, and monethes, and tymes, and yeres.
It worries me that you follow teachings about special days, months, seasons, and years. I fear that my work for you has been wasted.
You meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years.
You pay special attention to certain days, months, seasons, and years.
Ye taken kepe to daies, and monethis, and tymes, and yeris.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 23:1-44, Leviticus 25:1, Leviticus 25:13, Numbers 28:1 - Numbers 29:40, Romans 14:5, Colossians 2:16, Colossians 2:17
Reciprocal: Numbers 28:11 - in the beginnings Romans 14:6 - regardeth 2 Corinthians 12:15 - will Galatians 2:4 - bring
Cross-References
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
"But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
God said, "I've taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
"Don't pollute the land in which you live. Murder pollutes the land. The land can't be cleaned up of the blood of murder except through the blood of the murderer.
Joshua spoke to Achan, "My son, give glory to God , the God of Israel. Make your confession to him. Tell me what you did. Don't keep back anything from me."
"O Earth, don't cover up the wrong done to me! Don't muffle my cry! There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me, in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name— My Champion, my Friend, while I'm weeping my eyes out before God. I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor. "Only a few years are left before I set out on the road of no return."
Do you get it? The vineyard of God -of-the-Angel-Armies is the country of Israel. All the men and women of Judah are the garden he was so proud of. He looked for a crop of justice and saw them murdering each other. He looked for a harvest of righteousness and heard only the moans of victims.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Lest the apostle should be thought to suggest, without foundation, the inclination of these people to be in bondage to the ceremonies of the law, he gives this as an instance of it; which is to be understood, not of a civil observation of times, divided into days, months, and years, for which the luminaries of the heavens were made, and into summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, which is not only lawful, but absolutely necessary; but of a religious observation of days, c. not of the lucky and unlucky days, or of any of the festivals of the Gentiles, but of Jewish ones. By "days" are meant their seventh day sabbaths for since they are distinguished from months and years, they must mean such days as returned weekly; and what else can they be but their weekly sabbaths? These were peculiar to the Israelites, and not binding on others; and being typical of Christ, the true rest of his people, and he being come, are now ceased. By "months" are designed their new moons, or the beginning of their months upon the appearance of a new moon, which were kept by blowing trumpets, offering sacrifices, hearing the word of God, abstaining from work, and holding religious feasts; and were typical of that light, knowledge, and grace, the church receives from Christ, the sun of righteousness; and he, the substance, being come, these shadows disappeared. By "times" are intended the three times in the year, when the Jewish males appeared before the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the three feasts of tabernacles, passover, and pentecost, for the observance of which there was now no reason; not of the feast of tabernacles, since the word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us; nor of the passover, since Christ, our passover, is sacrificed for us; nor of pentecost, or the feast of weeks, or of the first fruits of the harvest, since the Spirit of God was poured down in a plenteous manner on that day upon the apostles; and when the firstfruits of a glorious harvest were brought in to the Lord, in the conversion of three thousand souls. And by "years" are to be understood their sabbatical years; every seventh year the land had a rest, and remained untilled; there were no ploughing and sowing, and there was a general release of debtors; and every fiftieth year was a jubilee to the Lord, when liberty to servants, debtors, c. was proclaimed throughout the land: all which were typical of rest, payment of debts, and spiritual liberty by Christ and which having their accomplishment in him, were no longer to be observed; wherefore these Galatians are blamed for so doing; and the more, because they were taught to observe them, in order to obtain eternal life and salvation by them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ye observe - The object of this verse is to specify some of the things to which they had become enslaved.
Days - The days here referred to are doubtless the days of the Jewish festivals. They had numerous days of such observances, and in addition to those specified in the Old Testament, the Jews had added many others as days commemorative of the destruction and rebuilding of the temple, and of other important events in their history. It is not a fair interpretation of this to suppose that the apostle refers to the Sabbath, properly so called, for this was a part of the Decalogue; and was observed by the Saviour himself, and by the apostles also. It is a fair interpretation to apply it to all those days which are not commanded to be kept holy in the Scriptures; and hence, the passage is as applicable to the observance of saints’ days, and days in honor of particular events in sacred history, as to the days observed by the Galatians. There is as real servitude in the observance of the numerous festivals, and fasts in the papal communion and in some Protestant churches, as there was in the observance of the days in the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, and for anything that I can see, such observances are as inconsistent now with the freedom of the gospel as they were in the time of Paul. We should observe as seasons of holy time what it can be proved God has commanded us, and no more.
And months - The festivals of the new moon, kept by the Jews. Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11-14. On this festival, in addition to the daily sacrifice, two bullocks, a ram, and seven sheep of a year old were offered in sacrifice. The appearance of the new-moon was announced by the sound of trumpets. See Jahn, Archae. 352.
And times - Stated times; festivals returning periodically, as the Passover, the Feast of Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. See Jahn, Archae. chap. 3. 346-360.
And years - The sabbatical year, or the year of jubilee. See Jahn as above.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Ye observe days — Ye superstitiously regard the Sabbaths and particular days of your own appointment;
And months — New moons; times-festivals, such as those of tabernacles, dedication, passover, &c.
Years. — Annual atonements, sabbatical years, and jubilees.
