The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 214

EXPOSITION. CHAPTER IV. the correlate to one registered amongst "men II was a ,ra'is. It does not appear that Ver. 1.-Now I say (71.l-,w 8{). A form of the apostle means to use a technical legal expression usual with the. apostle when in- expression. He contrasts "'l"'"s with av,lp troducing a ntiw statement designed either in 1 Cor. xiii. 11 ; Eph. iv. 13, H. "Differ- to explain or elucidate something before said eth nothing from a bond-servant; " i. e. is (cf. ch.iii.17; v. 16; Rom. xv. 8,acoordingto nothing better than a bond-servant, as Matt. the Received Text; 1 Car. i. 12. So TovTo vi. 26; x. 31 ; xii. 12. The verb 8,a.cp,p.,v 8/ q,11µ1, 1 Car. vii. 29; xv. 50). It is intended seems used only in the sense of yam differ- o.pparently to quicken attention: "Now I ing from another to your advantage, so that wish to say this." In the present case the .,.;. B,a.4>,povn are things that are more excel- apostle designs to throw further light upon lent. " LOL·d,11 " proprietor; " the title to the the position taken in oh. iii. 24, that God's property inheres in him, though he is nut people, while under the Law, were under a yet fit to handle it. bondage from which they have now been Ver. 2.-But is under tutors and governors emancipated. Compare the somewhat similar (a.Ma. inrb /;,r1TpO,rous EOTI 1<cu olKov&µous); process of illustration adopted in Rom. vii. but ia under guardians and stewarda. 'E,rl- 2-4. In both passages it is not e. logical Tpo,ros is, in Greek, the proper designation of demonstration the.t is put forwo.rd, but an a minor's guo.rdian; ns, for example, is shown illustro.tively analogous case in human ex- by Demosthenes's speeches agninst Aphobus, perience. A mele.phor, though not strictly who had been his ,1,rhpo,ros. These speeche~ o.n o.rgumeut, yet frequently helps the reader also show that the blTpo,ros was entrusted to an intuitive perception of the justness of with the handling of the property of his the position le.it{ down. That ~e heir, as wo.rd. Yet, o.s ol1<ov61-4os more especially de- long as he is a. ohild, diJfereth nothing from notes one entrusted wilh the mCLnagement-- o. servant, though he be lord of a.11 ( •</>' foov of property, it shoulcl eeem thCLt St. Po.ul xp&vov 6 1<7'.11pov&µos v,f,r,os i<T"Tw,o~B•v 81a.<PlpE1 uses the former term with more especial ro- Bo67'.ou, 1<6pios ,r,l.v.,.wv II,v); so long as the l1eir forcn.ce \o the guardirm's control over the is a child, he di.fferetli nothing fr0111 a bond- person of his wurd. 'l'he ward has to do s.erva11t, though he is lord of all. The article who.t the /,rlTpo,ros, guardian, thinks proper, before 1<M1pov&µos, hQir, is the class nl'ticle, as with no power of ordering his actions ac- before µ,alT11s, mediator (oh. iii. 20)-" an oording to his own will; while, on the other heir." In the word v,f,rws the .upostle evi- hand, the youth is not able to approprio.t0 dently has in view one who 11s yet is in his or o.pply any of his property further than o.s nonage-a.a in English law phrase, "an the "stewl\rd II thiuks right; between the info.nt." In Roml\n law lo.ngu11ge, infans is two he is bound ho.ml o.nd foot to other a child under suven, the period of minority people's control. The plural number of tho reL\ching to twenty-five. In Attio Greek, two nouns indicates tho 1·ough o.ncl general  180 THI~ EPISTLE 'l'O Tm: GALA'l'IANS. [en. 1v. 1-31.