ACC ~ Galatians 4 v28

THE GALATIANS CALLED ONCE AGAIN TO BECOME SONS OF THE FREE WOMAN. JEROME: One might ask how he speaks of the Galatians, whom he had called fools. He accused them of starting in the Spirit and finishing in the flesh. When the apostle called them “sons of promise” in the way that Isaac was, he meant that he did not completely despair of their salvation and judged that they would return again to the Spirit, in which they had begun, and become sons of the free woman. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.4.28.

CHILDREN OF PROMISE, BORN ACCORDING TO GRACE. THEODORET: We were born not according to nature but according to grace. For, just as in Isaac’s case, it was not the law of nature but that of the gospel that fashioned us. Thus the promise given to Abraham engendered us. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 4.28.

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