Galatians 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Galatians 4:10 in other translations
| BSB | You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! |
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| WEB | You observe days, months, seasons, and years. |
| ASV | Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years. |
| YLT | days ye observe, and months, and times, and years! |
| DARBY | Ye observe days and months and times and years. |
| BBE | You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years. |
| Webster | Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. |
What does Galatians 4:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Galatians 4:8-11
8-11. Appeal to them not to turn back from their privileges as free sons, to legal bondage again. then--when ye were "servants" (Ga 4:7). ye knew not God--not opposed to Ro 1:21. The heathen originally knew God, as Ro 1:21 states, but did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, and so corrupted the original truth. They might still have known Him, in a measure, from His works, but as a matter of fact they knew…
Barnes' Notes
Days. The days here referred to are doubtless the days of the Jewish festivals. They had numerous days of such observances; and in addition to those specified in the Old Testament, the Jews had added many others, as days commemorative of the destruction and rebuilding of the temple, and of other important events in their history. It is not a fair interpretation of this to suppose that the apostle refers to the Sabbath, properly so called, for this was a part of the Decalogue, and was observed by the Saviour himself, and by the apostles also. It is a fair interpretation to apply it to all those days which are not commanded to be kept holy in the Scriptures; and hence the passage is as applicable to the observance of saints' days, and days in honour of particular events in sacred history, as to the days observed by the Galatians. There is as real servitude in the observance of the numerous festivals and fasts in the Papal communion, and in some Protestant churches, as there was in the observance of the days in the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar; and, for anything that can see, such observances are as inconsistent now, with the freedom of the gospel, as they were in the time of Paul. We should observe as seasons of holy time what it can be proved God has commanded us, and no more.
And months, The festivals of the new moon, kept by the Jews, Nu 10:10, 28:11-14. On this festival, in addition to the daily sacrifice, two bullocks, a ram, and seven sheep of a year old, were offered in sacrifice. The appearance of the new moon was announced by the sound of trumpets. See Jahn, Archae, 352.
And times. Stated times; festivals returning periodically, as the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles: See Jahn, Archae., chap. iii. 346--360.
And years. The sabbatical year, or the year of jubilee. See Jahn as above.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Galatians 4:8-11
The happy change whereby the Galatians were turned from idols to the living God, and through Christ had received the adoption of sons, was the effect of his free and rich grace; they were laid under the greater obligation to keep to the liberty wherewith he had made them free. All our knowledge of God begins on his part; we know him because we are known of him. Though our religion forbids idolatry, yet many practise…
Galatians 4:10 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Galatians 4:10
- Colossians 2:16-17
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
- Romans 14:5
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
- Leviticus 23:1-44
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. …
- Numbers 28:1-29
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; …
- Leviticus 25:13
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
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Context
- Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
- Galatians 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
- Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians 4:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Guardáis los días, y los meses, y los tiempos, y los años. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous observez des jours, et des mois, et des temps, et des années. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihr beobachtet Tage und Monate und Zeiten und Jahre. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos. |