Verš 4
But when the fullness of time arrived, God sent his Son, formed from a woman, formed under the law,
Gn 49:10 - The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.
Dan 9:24 - Seventy weeks of years are concentrated on your people and on your holy city, so that transgression shall be finished, and sin shall reach an end, and iniquity shall be wiped away, and so that everlasting justice shall be brought in, and vision and prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Saint of saints shall be anointed.
Mt 5:17 - Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill. 566
Verš 5
so that he might redeem those who were under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Jn 1:12 - Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.
Gal 3:26 - For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Verš 6
Therefore, because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying out: “Abba, Father.”
Rim 8:15 - And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: “Abba, Father!”
Verš 8
But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
1Kor 8:4 - But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One.
Verš 9
But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?
Kol 2:20 - So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world?
Verš 10
You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
Rim 14:5 - For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind.
Kol 2:16 - Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths.
Verš 14
You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.
Mal 2:7 - For the lips of the priests will keep knowledge, and they will request the law from his mouth, because he is an angel of the Lord of hosts.
Mt 10:40 - Whoever receives you, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me.
Jn 13:20 - Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives anyone whom I send, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me.”
Verš 17
They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.
Rim 10:2 - For I offer testimony to them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
2Kor 11:12 - But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.
Verš 19
My little sons, I am giving birth to you again, until Christ is formed in you.
1Kor 4:15 - For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.
Flm 1:10 - I beg you, on behalf of my son, whom I have begotten in my chains, Onesimus.
Jak 1:18 - For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.
Verš 22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.
Gn 16:2 - she said to her husband: “Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.” And when he agreed to her supplication,
Gn 16:15 - And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael.
Gn 21:2 - And she conceived and gave birth to a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold to her.
Sk 7:8 - And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he conceived Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac conceived Jacob, and Jacob, the twelve Patriarchs.
Heb 11:11 - By faith also, Sarah herself, being barren, received the ability to conceive offspring, even though she was past that age in life. For she believed him to be faithful, who had promised.
Verš 23
And he who was of the servant was born according to the flesh. But he who was of the free woman was born by the promise.
Jn 8:39 - They responded and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them: “If you are the sons of Abraham, then do the works of Abraham.
Rim 9:7 - And not all sons are the offspring of Abraham: “For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.”
Verš 26
But that Jerusalem which is above is free; the same is our mother.
Zjv 21:2 - And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Verš 27
For it was written: “Rejoice, O barren one, though you do not conceive. Burst forth and cry out, though you do not give birth. For many are the children of the desolate, even more than of her who has a husband.”
Iz 54:1 - Give praise, you who are barren and unable to conceive. Sing praise and make a joyful noise, you who have not given birth. For many are the children of the desolate, more so than of her who has a husband, says the Lord.
Verš 28
Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are sons of the promise.
Rim 9:7 - And not all sons are the offspring of Abraham: “For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.”
Verš 29
But just as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Gn 21:9 - And when Sarah had seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with her son Isaac, she said to Abraham:
Verš 30
And what does Scripture say? “Cast out the woman servant and her son. For the son of a servant women shall not be an heir with the son of a free woman.”
Gn 21:10 - “Cast out this woman servant and her son. For the son of a woman servant will not be heir with my son Isaac.”
Gal 4,3 - Obdobie ľudských dejín do príchodu Krista chápe Pavol ako maloletosť v živote človeka. "Živly sveta" sú pravdepodobne predpisy židovského zákona (vv. 8–10), ktorými Boh vychovával ešte nezrelý ľud. Môžu to byť aj prvky materiálneho sveta, ktoré pohania pokladali za bohov. (v. 8).
Gal 4,4 - "Plnosť času" je čas, ktorý sa začal príchodom Krista, čiže novozákonné obdobie. Boh v Kristovi dal ľuďom plnosť všetkého, čo potrebujú na spásu.
Gal 4,6 - Je to vlastná a výlučná modlitba Božieho Syna, počas jeho pozemského života, ktorá sa stáva vlastnou a charakteristickou modlitbou kresťana prežívajúceho adoptívne Božie synovstvo (porov. Rim 8, 15).
Gal 4,9 - "Boh pozná vás" znamená: "obľúbil si vás, uznal za svojich".
Gal 4,10 - Pavol im vyčíta zachovávanie židovských slávností, ktoré sa im prívrženci židovstva usilovali nanútiť (porov. Kol 2, 16).
Gal 4,12 - Vyzýva ich, aby boli slobodní od zákona ako on, lebo on sa prispôsobil ich slabosti, aby ich získal.
Gal 4,13 - Pravdepodobne tu myslí na nejakú chorobu, ktorá ho mohla postihnúť na druhej apoštolskej ceste (porov. Sk 16,6).
Gal 4,15 - Tieto Pavlove slová niektorí chápu metaforicky, iní doslovne, vzťahujú to na nejakú očnú chorobu, ktorá vyvolala u Galaťanov súcit.
Gal 4,17 - "Chcú vás odlúčiť" od Pavla a tým aj od Krista.
Gal 4,22 - Otrokyňa bola Agar a slobodná Sára. Podľa všeobecného práva iba deti slobodnej, nie otrokyne, mali právo dediť (porov. Gn 16; 21, 1–21). Tieto biblické udalosti dokazujú, že sloboda Božieho prisľúbenia prevyšuje otroctvo zákona. Agar totiž predstavuje Starý zákon, kým Sára Nový.
Gal 4,27 - Iz 54, 1.
Gal 4,30 - Gn 21, 10.
