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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...be specially marked. Children answers to child, verse 1; bondage to servant; elements to tutors and governors. We--That Gentiles as well as Jews are included as children and heirs is clear from verse 8. Gentilism is thus viewed in its aspect of a prepaiatory dispensation, a previous stage to CJ.ristianity. See notes on Acts xvii, 22, 23. Elements--The Greek word is derived from a root signifying a row, ot any objects standing in rows, ranks, or orders. Hence it became a term for the letters of the alphabet. And as nature is viewed in rows and orders, so it came to signify the elements of nature, which were then held to be earth, ai', fire, and water. Thence, from their visible order, or from their orderly measurement of time, the term was applied to the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, and stars. By the phrase elements of the world, here, most of the aiveient interpreters understood tla heavenly bodies, as objects of worship among Gentiles. But that does not fit the oarallelism between the child and the early human race. The parallelism requires that alphabetic elements should be understood, adjusted to under tutors. These elements are of the world in that sense of the world in which it is in antithesis to the Christian Church, and so includes Judaism in its adverse aspect, as well as Gentilism. The latter is viewed in its most favourable aspect in order to its being associated with Judaism. Both, then, are viewed as unknowing Christ, yet preparatory to Christ. 4. Fulness...time--Parallel to the time appointed, verse 2, at which the minor became major in age. The fulness of the time is, therefore, the completion of the maturing period, in which the nations are ready for the advent of Christ and Christianity. The historic process is going on until "the w...
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