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Galatians 4:10 (WEB)
You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

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The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…

Origen, Against Celsus VIII.21Book VIII
“I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10, 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 5
“Stand aloof from all observance of Sabbaths, and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean.” — editor's note: Compare Gal. iv. 10, “Ye observe days.”
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John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11Conference XIV
“But one who has forsaken both these kinds of fornication, will have a third kind to avoid, which is contained in the superstitions of the law and of Judaism; of which the Apostle says: “Ye observe days and months and times and years;” and again: Touch not, taste not, handle not.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10; Col. ii. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 127
“Thus the Apostles seeing some fall bewailed these men, in that they had laboured in vain for them.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10, 11.
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Augustine of Hippo, The Enchiridion Chapter 79
“…the greatness of the evil from the fear expressed by the apostle, who says to such men, “I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain”?” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10, 11
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.3Festal Letters
“And we do not keep the festival as observers of days, knowing that the Apostle reproves those who do so, in those words which he spake; ‘Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.’” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.6Festal Letters
“Let him by all means hear, though fancying that he keeps the feast, the Apostolic voice reproving him; ‘Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years: I fear lest I have laboured among you in vain.’” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10, 11.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 33
“So that since he had said, “Do not observe,” and this seemed to be [the language] of one who is throwing down his own building, he again turns it round.” — editor's note: παρατηρεῖτε, see Gal. iv. 10
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Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 2
“Thus, too, they affirm that we share with the Galatians the piercing rebuke (of the apostle), as “observers of days, and of months, and of years.”” — editor's note: See Gal. iv. 10; the words καὶ καιρούς Tertullian omits.
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Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 14
“Being, therefore, observers of “seasons” for these things, and of “days, and months, and years,” we Galaticize.” — editor's note: Comp. Gal. iv. 10.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.3Book V
“He tells us himself clearly enough what he means by “elements,” even the rudiments of the law: “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years”—the sabbaths, I suppose, and “the preparations,” and the fasts, and the “high days.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10.
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