Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

Galatians 4:6 James Boice “… this salvation is both objective and subjective. For God the Father sent the Son in order that believers might have the position of sons and He sent his Spirit so that they might have the experience of the same reality.”

Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

oi=da (OIDA) “know” to have seen or perceived; in the case of human knowledge—to know from observation

oi=da (OIDA) ginw,skw (GINŌSKŌ) “know” to have seen or perceived; in the case of human knowledge—to know from observation ginw,skw (GINŌSKŌ) Vine’s “to be taking in knowledge, to come to know, recognize, understand, or to understand completely.”

“know” Vine’s The differences between ginōskō and oida demand consideration: (a) ginōskō frequently suggests inception or progress in knowledge, while oida suggests fullness of knowledge (b) while ginōskō frequently implies an active relation between the one who knows and the person or thing known, oida expresses the fact that the object has simply come within the scope of the knower’s perception; thus in Matt 7:23 “I never knew you” (ginōskō) suggests ‘I have never been in approving connection with you,’ whereas in 25:12, “I know you not” (oida) suggests ‘you stand in no relation to Me.’

Galatians 4:8 Howard Vos “Men deified forces and phenomena which by nature are not gods because they are not personal, rational, self-initiating, and omnipotent. Images representing these forces and phenomena are not gods either, for they possess no life or power.”

Galatians 4:8 Ron Merryman “Unbelievers are not free; their norm is religious slavery to deities of their own creation. Often the religious scruples associated with such are merely a smokescreen to cloud the issues of sin and the sin nature. The Galatians’ past condition, before the heard the liberating gospel, was one of religious slavery.”

“know” Vine’s The differences between ginōskō and oida demand consideration: (a) ginōskō frequently suggests inception or progress in knowledge, while oida suggests fullness of knowledge (b) while ginōskō frequently implies an active relation between the one who knows and the person or thing known, oida expresses the fact that the object has simply come within the scope of the knower’s perception; thus in Matt 7:23 “I never knew you” (ginōskō) suggests ‘I have never been in approving connection with you,’ whereas in 25:12, “I know you not” (oida) suggests ‘you stand in no relation to Me.’

“know” Vine’s The differences between ginōskō and oida demand consideration: (a) ginōskō frequently suggests inception or progress in knowledge, while oida suggests fullness of knowledge (b) while ginōskō frequently implies an active relation between the one who knows and the person or thing known, oida expresses the fact that the object has simply come within the scope of the knower’s perception; thus in Matt 7:23 “I never knew you” (ginōskō) suggests ‘I have never been in approving connection with you,’ whereas in 25:12, “I know you not” (oida) suggests ‘you stand in no relation to Me.’

Galatians 4:9 Howard Vos “The elements or rudiments of religion were just the ABC’s; they had been enjoying the advanced studies. Did they want to be in bondage again to these weak and beggarly elements? As Gentiles they had suffered under the bondage of heathenism, powerless to justify themselves and to please God. Now as converted Gentiles, what did they want with a bondage to Jewish legalism which was just as incapable of providing justification and spiritual enablement?”

Galatians 4:10 Ron Merryman “Legalists are and always have been meticulous nit-pickers. They major in the minors and minor in the majors.”

Galatians 4:10 Mosaic Calendar Days weekly Sabbaths Months new moons Seasons Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles Years Sabbatical and Jubilee years