The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 218

ldeo.s would naturally receive also here. The found after the verb" to he" in John viii. ooliviotion th11t this is what the apostle 47, "Ho that is of God;"" Ye nre not of re1dly intended is corroborated by references God," pointing back to the clA.im which which he elsewhere makes to Christ's pre- (ver. 41) the Jews had marle thnt they hOII inoarnate existence and work: ne, for example, God for their Father. The construction of in Phil, ii. 5, 6; Ool. i. 15, 16; the latter of -yl-yvoµa,, to come to be, with a preposition which pnssagee, by describing "the Bon of occurs frequently, as in Luke xxii. 44; Actt, God's love" as "the First born of every ir;xii. 17; Rom. xvi. 7; 2 These. ii. 7. There creature, because by him aJI things were can be no doubt that -y,v6µ,vov must be created" (see Alford, and the 'Speaker's ta.ken in the next clause with the same Commentary' on the paeeage), betokens that meaning e.s here. Made under the Law St. Paul regarded him RB having been even (-y,vdµ,vov tnrb v6µov); that is, made to b~ then the" Son of God ; " and this, too, in the under the La1JJ. The "Law" here, as in the sense of derivation from "the sub,-tance of the clause immediately after " those under the Father," "begotten" (as the Nicene Creed Law," indice.tes, not Law in genera.I, but that recites);, of his Father before all worlds." particular Jaw of tutorship o.nd of domina- We mo.y, therefore, reasonably believe that tion over one as yet in the deprr.aaed con the Apostle Paul, whose views alone are now dition of a minor, which the apostle ha.s jnst under consideration, recognized these two before spoken of; that is, a law of cere- senses of the term, namely, the theological monies and of external cult. The article is and the Christological, e.s inseparably blend- wanting in the Greek, e.s in Rom. ii. 12, 23; ing into one when thus applied to the Lord eh. ii. 21; iii. 11, etc. We cannot be un- Jesus; for we must allow that it appears conscious of a tone of pathos in the apostle's alien to his manner of sentiment and of language, thus declaring that he who had representntion to suppose that he ever uses before been no less augnst a being than it in the purely theological sense only. In God's Son, should in conformity with his the view of the apostle Christ was the "Son Father's will have stooped to derive being of God," not only when appointed to be the _"from a woman," as well as to become subject Messiah, but also before he was "made to' to such a Law of servitude as that of Moses be of a woman." Indeed, it should seem was. In the second chapter of the Philip- that this conception of his person is just I piane we have a similar account of the that which forms the basis for the subsequent Incarnation, in which, with similar pe.thos, statement tue.t the object of his coming into the apo•tle remarks that he took upon him the world was to procure the- adoption of the form ofa" bond-servant" (3oii,\as), being sons for us. Made of a woman (-yevdµevov made to be in the like condition to that of ire ')'Vva,re&s); made to be of a woman. This, men (lv dµo16Jµan iivOpo,,r.,v -yev6µ,vos); but indeed, was probably the sense intended by in that passage the line of thought does not King James's translators, when they followed lead to e, definite reference of his being made Wickliffe and the Geneva Bible in rendering subject to the ceremonial Law. The apostle '' made of a woman; " whilst Tynde.le and probably thinks of Christ as being mndn Cranmer, followed by the Revisers of 1881, subject to tile Law by bis being circumcised-- give " born of a woman." Just the same I\ child of Isroelite parents, so long as he wa., divergency of renderings appears in the same unciroumcised, was repudiated by tile Law English translations in Rom. i. 3, " made of llli one not in the covenant. With referenee the seed of Do.vid (-yevoµ,vou ire ,nr<pp.a-ror to the preceding clnuse," made of a woman," ll.af)l8)," except that Tyndale has " be- we are D11turnlly led to inquire why this gotten" instead of "born." The difference particular was specified. It does not appee.p in sense is 'appreciable and important: to be essentinl to his argument, as the next "made" implies a previous state of exist- clause certainly is. ProbA.bly it was added ence, which "born" does not. So fnr as the as marking one of the successive steps down present writer can find, wherever in the which the Sou of God descended to that New Testament the Authorized V01·sion hue subject.ion (" servitude," ver. 8) to tile cere- "- born," we ha-ve in the Greek either -rex- monial Lnw which the apostle is most par- 8ijva, or ')'EW718ijvc:,1: -yev<u8a, never ho.ving ticularly concerned with. As in Phil. ii. he this sense nt all. ' As in eh. iii. 13 (-yevdµ,vos is exhibited, first ns emptying himself; next, "1.,p ~µow re,ml.pa), "Being made a ourse for as ta.king upon him the forru of a bond-servant us," and in John i. 14 (d Ad-yos udp! i-y,ve-ro), by being me.de man; and then e.t length as "The Word was made flesh;" so here God's brought to "the death of the cross;" so Bon is described as "made to be of a woman," here, more briefly, he nppears as "sent- the phrase, "of a woman," beiug nee.dy forth " from the bosom of the Father; next, identicnl iu import with the word " flesh " ns m11de " the son of e, woman ; " then as in St. John, distinctly implying the foot of brought under the Law, to tho end that (of the Iuoarnntion. The preposition "of" (lre) course by tue Crucifixion) he might buy o!f denotea derivation cf being, ns when it is frow under the Law tuose who wc-ro subject  •rim EPISTLE TO THI£ GALA'l'lANl5. (on. 1v. l-81,