He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
In this chapter the apostle deals plainly with those who hearkened to the judaizing teachers, who cried up the law of Moses in competition with the gospel of Christ, and endeavored to bring them under the bondage of it. To convince them of their folly, and to rectify their mistake herein, in these verses he prosecutes the comparison of a child under age, which he...
Commenting on Galatians 4:1-7
But is under tutors and governors,.... The word rendered "tutors", is adopted by the Jewish Targumists and Rabbins into their language; and by the former is used (x) for any ruler and governor, civil or domestic; and by the latter, for such as are guardians of infants, fatherless children, and such as are under age, as it is here used; and who were either appointed...
Verse 2. But is under. Is subject to their control and direction. Tutors. The word tutor, with us, properly means instructor. But this is not quite the sense of the original. The word επιτροπος properly means steward, manager, agent, .