ing verses [ver. 28, There is neither Jew nor Greek, etc., for ye are all one in Christ]. Christ is the Son of God, and ye are in Him the sons of God. Tho. Gataker says, if a person were to ask me to define a Christian, 1 would give him no defini tion more readily than this : A Christian is one, who has put on Christ : 1. 1, misc. c. 9.
28. Oux 'ivi, there is not) These were formerly differences, now they are at an end, along with their causes and signs : &/ for
with the preposition to which sv presently corresponds. — oe, x.r.x, the Jew, etc.) Col. iii. 11, note. — aptev nat 05jXu, male and female) In the circumcision there was the male : for the weaker sex, by which the transgression began, was with out it. — £%, one) A new man, who has put on Christ, Eph. ii. 15. —sv Xpiffrti 'ijjc-oD, in Christ Jesus) construed with one.
29. vApa, therefore) Christ sanctifies the whole posterity of Abraham. — sirayyi'kiav, the promise) given to Abraham.
1. Asyw ds, Now I say) He explains what he said, iii. 24, con cerning the schoolmaster. — 6 xhypovopog, the heir) This term is brought from ch. iii. 29. — vfaiQc) a child, under age. — oufrsv dia- •pspsi dovXov, differs nothing from a servant) Because he is not at his own disposal, regarding deeds and contracts. — ^ravrwi/, of all) Those things which relate to the inheritance.
2. 'ET/rpoVouj) tutors of an heir. — O/XOI/O/AOI/S) curators of goods. [Engl. Ver. not so well, governors].
3. ' YTO ra ffroi^sTa rov xotpov, under the elements of the world) — Sro/^s/bv, an element) A certain first principle, from which other things arise and are constituted ; in the universe, 2 Pet. iii. 10, see note : and in letters (learning), Heb. v. 12 (comp. ffroi^siuffig, respecting the child in the womb, 2 Mace. vii. 22) : thence by Metonymy, elements of the ivorld in this passage, likewise weak and beggarly elements, presently, ver. 9, i.e. principles of living, which depend on times marked out by the motion of the elements, i.e. of the sun and moon ; likewise principles which refer to