Galatians 4:3
So we also, while children, under the principles of the world were subjected.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
In Context
2but is under curators and stewards until the time which his father appointeth.
Cross References
Matthew 11:28Come unto me, all you (who) are wearied and bearing burdens, and I will give you rest.
Acts 15:10And now why tempt you Aloha, that you would lay a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which nor our fathers nor we could bear?
Galatians 2:4But on account of false brethren, who entered upon us that they might espy the liberty which we have in Jeshu Meshiha as that they might bring me into subjection;
Galatians 3:23But until (the dispensation of) faith came, the law kept us, as shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.
Galatians 4:25for Hagar is Mount Sinai which is in Arabia, and answers to this Urishlem, and serves in bondage, she and her children.
Colossians 2:8Beware lest any man strip you by philosophy and by vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, and according to the principles of the world, and not according to the Meshiha,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:2-8
The Redemption by Christ. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And… Read the whole commentary →