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Galatians 4:4
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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
But at just the right moment, God sent his only boy, born to a virgin, and under the same set of rules as everyone else.
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,
When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,
But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,
But when the fulnes of the time was come, God sent foorth his Sonne made of a woman, made vnder the Law,
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, having come into being out of a woman, having come under Law,
But whan the tyme was fulfylled, God sent his sonne, borne of a woma, and put vnder the lawe,
God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,
But when [in God's plan] the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the [regulations of the] Law,
but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
But when the tyme was full come God sent his sonne borne of a woman and made bonde vnto ye lawe
but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
But when the right time came, God sent his Son who was born of a woman and lived under the law.
But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the time was right, God sent his Son, and a woman gave birth to him. His Son obeyed the Law,
but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was the norm,
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son who, born of a woman, became subject to the law,
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Genesis 3:15; 49:10; Isaiah 7:14; Daniel 9:24; Micah 5:3; Matthew 1:23; 5:17; Mark 1:15; Luke 1:31; John 1:14; Romans 1:3; Ephesians 1:10; Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14;">[xr]
But when the fulness of the time had come, Aloha sent his Son, and made from a woman, and made under the law,
But when the consummation of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son; and he was from a woman, and was under the law;
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born [fn] of a woman, born under the law,
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
But at the right time, God sent His Son. A woman gave birth to Him under the Law.
but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But, when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, who came to be of a woman, who came to be under law, -
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come, God sent his sonne, made of a woman, and made vnder the lawe,
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, who was born from a woman and lived under the law.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,
But aftir that the fulfilling of tyme cam, God sente his sone,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the fulness: Genesis 49:10, Daniel 9:24-26, Malachi 3:1, Mark 1:15, Acts 1:7, Ephesians 1:10, Hebrews 9:10
God: Isaiah 48:16, Zechariah 2:8-11, John 3:16, John 6:38, John 8:42, John 10:36, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:14
made: Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Micah 5:2, Zechariah 6:12, Luke 2:10, Luke 2:11, John 1:14, Romans 1:3, Romans 9:5, Philippians 2:6-8, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 10:5-7, 1 John 4:2
of a: Genesis 3:15, Isaiah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:22, Micah 5:3, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:31, Luke 1:35, Luke 2:7
made under: Matthew 3:15, Matthew 5:17, Luke 2:21-27, Romans 15:8, Colossians 2:14
Reciprocal: Exodus 37:6 - General Exodus 40:12 - General Exodus 40:18 - reared Leviticus 3:6 - a sacrifice Leviticus 4:28 - a kid Leviticus 15:28 - General Leviticus 25:48 - General Psalms 102:13 - the set Ecclesiastes 3:2 - time to be born Isaiah 40:2 - warfare Matthew 1:18 - of the Mark 14:12 - Where Luke 2:39 - performed Luke 12:56 - that Luke 20:13 - I will Luke 20:44 - how Luke 22:8 - Go John 1:11 - came John 5:1 - General John 6:32 - the true John 6:42 - Is not John 7:10 - then John 8:35 - but John 9:7 - Sent John 11:42 - that thou John 11:51 - that Jesus John 16:27 - and have Acts 3:22 - of your Acts 26:6 - the promise Romans 5:6 - in due time Romans 6:14 - for ye Romans 7:6 - But Romans 8:3 - God Galatians 3:23 - under Philippians 2:7 - in the Colossians 2:11 - by 1 Timothy 2:6 - in 1 Timothy 2:15 - she Titus 1:3 - in Hebrews 1:2 - these Hebrews 2:9 - Jesus Hebrews 2:11 - all Hebrews 5:7 - the 1 Peter 1:20 - in 1 John 1:2 - which was
Cross-References
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then built a city and named it after his son, Enoch. Enoch had Irad, Irad had Mehujael, Mehujael had Methushael, Methushael had Lamech.
Lamech married two wives, Adah and Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who live in tents and herd cattle. His brother's name was Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and flute. Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who worked at the forge making bronze and iron tools. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering the incense.
"On the other hand, you don't redeem a firstborn ox, sheep, or goat—they are holy. Instead splash their blood on the Altar and burn their fat as a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God . But you get the meat, just as you get the breast from the Wave-Offering and the right thigh. All the holy offerings that the People of Israel set aside for God , I'm turning over to you and your children. That's the standard rule and includes both you and your children—a Covenant-of-Salt, eternal and unchangeable before God ."
The angel of God stretched out the tip of the stick he was holding and touched the meat and the bread. Fire broke out of the rock and burned up the meat and bread while the angel of God slipped away out of sight. And Gideon knew it was the angel of God! Gideon said, "Oh no! Master, God ! I have seen the angel of God face-to-face!"
Immediately the fire of God fell and burned up the offering, the wood, the stones, the dirt, and even the water in the trench.
When Solomon finished praying, a bolt of lightning out of heaven struck the Whole-Burnt-Offering and sacrifices and the Glory of God filled The Temple. The Glory was so dense that the priests couldn't get in— God so filled The Temple that there was no room for the priests! When all Israel saw the fire fall from heaven and the Glory of God fill The Temple, they fell on their knees, bowed their heads, and worshiped, thanking God : Yes! God is good! His love never quits!
By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But when the fulness of time was come,.... The time agreed and fixed upon between God and his Son from all eternity, in the council and covenant of peace, when the Son of God should assume human nature; which time was diligently searched into by the prophets, was revealed unto them, and predicted by them; as more generally that it should be before the civil government ceased from Judah, and before the destruction of the second temple; and more particularly by Daniel in his prophecy of the "seventy weeks", towards and about the close of which there was a general expectation among the Jews of the Messiah's coming; and was the fulness of time here referred to, and what is sometimes called the dispensation of the fulness of time, the end of the Mosaic dispensation and Jewish church state, the last days of that state, and the end of the Jewish world, as to their ecclesiastical and civil polity. The Jews themselves own that the time of the Messiah's coming is fixed, and that at that time he shall come, whether they are worthy or not, for so it is asserted in their Talmud d;
"says R. Jochanan, the son of David does not come, but in an age which is all worthy, or all wicked; in a generation which is all worthy, as it is written, Isaiah 60:21 in a generation that is all wicked, as it is written, Isaiah 66:5 and it is written, "for my name's sake will I do it"; says R. Alexander, R. Joshua ben Levi objects what is written,
Isaiah 60:22 "in its time"; and it is written, "I will hasten it"; if they are worthy I will hasten it, if they are not worthy it shall be בעתה, "in its time".''
And accordingly a more modern writer of theirs says e,
"our redemption upon all accounts shall be, בזמנה, "in its time", whether worthy or, wicked; but if worthy its time will be hastened;''
it must be owned they do not always say so: this phrase, "the fulness of time", is an Hebraism, and is the same with מלאת ימי, in Ezekiel 5:2 which the Septuagint render την πληρωσιν των ημερων, "the fulness of days", and we, "when the days were fulfilled", when the time was up; and the same sense it has here, and it is also the same with מועד, "the appointed time", Habakkuk 2:3 and answers to προθεσμια του πατρος, "the time appointed of the Father", Galatians 4:2.
God sent forth his Son; God not absolutely and essentially, but personally and relatively considered, is here meant, namely, God the Father, as appears from the relation the person sent stands in to him, "his Son"; not by creation, as angels, Adam, and all men are the sons of God; nor by adoption, as saints are; or by office, as magistrates be; or on account of his incarnation or resurrection from the dead, for he was the Son of God before either; but by divine generation, being the only begotten of the Father, of his divine nature and essence, equal to him, and one with him: and who was "sent" by him, not out of disrespect to him, but love to us; nor without his consent or against his will, he readily and heartily agreeing to it; nor does it imply any local motion or change of place, but only designs the assumption of human nature; nor does it suppose any superiority and inferiority, for though Christ, as man, and in his office capacity, as Mediator, is inferior to the Father, yet not as to his divine nature, or as the Son of God; but it suggests, that he existed before he was sent, and that as a person, and as a distinct person from the Father, otherwise he could not with any propriety be said to be sent by him; and also that there was an entire harmony and agreement between them in this matter, the Father agreed to send his Son, and the Son agreed to be sent; and that as to his taking upon him the office of Mediator, and his assumption of human nature in order to obtain eternal redemption: all this was not of himself, but done in concert with his Father, from whom as Mediator he had his mission and commission;
made of a woman; "made", not created as Adam was; nor begotten by man, as men in common are; nor is he said to be born, though he truly was, but "made"; which word the Holy Ghost chooses, to express the mighty power of God, in his mysterious incarnation, wonderful conception, and birth; though some copies read, "born of a woman"; and so the Arabic and Ethiopic version: "of a woman"; whose seed he was from the beginning said to be; of a woman, without a man; of a woman, a virgin, as was foretold; and not only made and formed in her, but of her, of her flesh and blood, of which he took part; and which denotes the low estate and great humiliation of Christ, and shows that as sin came into the world by the woman, the Saviour from sin came also the same way:
made under the law; under the civil and judicial law as a Jew, to which he was subject, paying tribute to the collectors of it; and which was necessary; that it might appear he sprung from that nation, to whom he was promised; and that he came before the civil government of that people was at an end; and to teach us subjection to the civil magistrate: and as a son of Abraham he was made under the ceremonial law, was circumcised the eighth day, kept the several feasts of tabernacles, passover, c. and which was proper, since he was the principal end of it, in whom it centres, and for whose sake it was made and that he might completely fulfil it, and by so doing put a period to it: and he was made under the moral law, both as a man and the surety of his people, and was subject to all the precepts of it, and bore the penalty of it, death, in their room and stead, and thereby fulfilled it, and delivered them from its curse and condemnation. So the Targumist f, joins the incarnation of the Messiah and his subjection to the law together, as the apostle here does;
"the prophet saith to the house of David, because a child is born unto us, and a son is given to us, עלוהי למטרה
וקביל אוריתא, "and he hath took upon him the law to keep it, and his name shall be called", &c.''
d T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 1. Vid. Jarchi & Kinachi in Isa. lx. 22. e Kimchi in Psal. cviii. 4. f In Isa. ix. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But when the fulness of the time was come - The full time appointed by the Father; the completion (filling up, πλήρωμα plērōma,) of the designated period for the coming of the Messiah; see the Isaiah 49:7-8 notes; 2 Corinthians 6:2 note. The sense is, that the time which had been predicted, and when it was proper that he should come, was complete. The exact period had arrived when all things were ready for his coming. It is often asked why he did not come sooner, and why mankind did not have the benefit of his incarnation and atonement immediately after the fall? Why were four thousand dark and gloomy years allowed to roll on, and the world suffered to sink deeper and deeper in ignorance and sin? To these questions perhaps no answer entirely satisfactory can be given. God undoubtedly saw reasons which we cannot; see, and reasons which we shall approve if they are disclosed to us.
It may be observed, however, that this delay of redemption was in entire accordance with the whole system of divine arrangements, and with all the divine interpositions in favor of men. People are suffered long to pine in want, to suffer from disease, to encounter the evils of ignorance, before interposition is granted. On all the subjects connected with human comfort and improvement, the same questions may be asked as on the subject of redemption. Why was the invention of the art of printing so long delayed, and people suffered to remain in ignorance? Why was the discovery of vaccination delayed so long, and millions suffered to die who might have been saved? Why was not the bark of Peru sooner known, and why did so many millions die who might have been saved by its use? So of most of the medicines, and of the arts and inventions that go to ward off disease, and to promote the intelligence, the comfort, and the salvation of man. In respect to all of these, it may be true that they are made known at the very best time, the time that will on the whole most advance the welfare of the race. And so of the incarnation and work of the Saviour. It was seen by God to be the best time, the time when on the whole the race would be most benefited by his coming. Even with our limited and imperfect vision, we can see the following things in regard to its being the most fit and proper time.
(1) It was just the time when all the prophecies centerd in him, and when there could be no doubt about their fulfillment. It was important that such an event should be predicted in order that there might be full evidence that he came from heaven; and yet in order that prophecy may be seen to have been uttered by God, it must be so far before the event as to make it impossible to have been the result of mere human conjecture.
(2) It was proper that the world should be brought to see its need of a Saviour, and that a fair and satisfactory opportunity should be given to men to try all other schemes of salvation that they might be prepared to welcome this. This had been done. Four thousand years were sufficient to show to man his own powers, and to give him an opportunity to devise some scheme of salvation. The opportunity had been furnished under every circumstance that could be deemed favorable. The most profound and splendid talent of the world had been brought to bear on it, especially in Greece and Rome; and ample Opportunity had been given to make a fair trial of the various systems of religion devised on national happiness and individual welfare; their power to meet and arrest crime; to purify the heart; to promote public morals, and to support man in his trials; their power to conduct him to the true God, and to give him a wellfounded hope of immortality. All had failed; and then it was a proper time for the Son of God to come and to reveal a better system.
(3) It was a time when the world was at peace. The temple of Janus, closed only in times of peace, was then shut, though it had been but once closed before during the Roman history. What an appropriate time for the “Prince of Peace” to come! The world was, to a great extent, under the Roman sceptre. Communications between different parts of the world were then more rapid and secure than they had been at any former period, and the gospel could be more easily propagated. Further, the Jews were scattered in almost all lands, acquainted with the promises, looking for the Messiah, furnishing facilities to their own countrymen the apostles to preach the gospel in numerous synagogues, and qualified, if they embraced the Messiah, to become most zealous and devoted missionaries. The same language, the Greek, was, moreover, after the time of Alexander the Great, the common language of no small part of the world, or at least was spoken and understood among a considerable portion of the nations of the earth. At no period before had there been so extensive a use of the same language.
(4) It was a proper period to make the new system known. It accorded with the benevolence of God, that it should be delayed no longer than that the world should be in a suitable state for receiving the Redeemer. When that period, therefore, had arrived, God did not delay, but sent his Son on the great work of the world’s redemption.
God sent forth his Son - This implies that the Son of God had an existence before his incarnation; see John 16:28. The Saviour is often represented as sent into the world, and as coming forth from God.
Made of a woman - In human nature; born of a woman, This also implies that he had another nature than that which was derived from the woman. On the supposition that he was a mere man, how unmeaning would this assertion be! How natural to ask, in what other way could he appear than to be born of a woman? Why was he particularly designated as coming into the world in this manner? How strange would it sound if it were said, “In the sixteenth century came Faustus Socinus preaching Unitarianism, made of a woman!” or, “In the eighteenth century came Dr. Joseph Priestley, born of a woman, preaching the doctrines of Socinus!” How else could they appear? would be the natural inquiry. What was there special in their birth and origin that rendered such language necessary? The language implies that there were other ways in which the Saviour might have come; that there was something special in the fact that he was born of a woman; and that there was some special reason why that fact should be made prominently a matter of record. The promise was Genesis 3:15 that the Messiah should be the “seed” or the descendant of woman; and Paul probably here alludes to the fulfillment of that promise.
Made under the law - As one of the human race, partaking of human nature, he was subject to the Law of God. As a man he was hound by its requirements, and subject to its control. He took his place under the Law that he might accomplish an important purpose for those who were under it. He made himself subject to it that he might become one of them, and secure their redemption.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Galatians 4:4. When the fulness of the time was come — The time which God in his infinite wisdom counted best; in which all his counsels were filled up; and the time which his Spirit, by the prophets, had specified; and the time to which he intended the Mosaic institutions should extend, and beyond which they should be of no avail.
God sent forth his Son — Him who came immediately from God himself, made of a woman, according to the promise, Genesis 3:15; produced by the power of God in the womb of the Virgin Mary without any intervention of man; hence he was called the Son of God. See Luke, Luke 1:35, and the note there.
Made under the law — In subjection to it, that in him all its designs might be fulfilled, and by his death the whole might be abolished; the law dying when the Son of God expired upon the cross.
