Galatians 4:28 (WEB)
Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
Catechism · 2
The Moral Law
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…
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“By the Holy Spirit's power and her faith, her virginity became uniquely fruitful.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 1:26-38; Rom 4:18-21; Gal 4:26-28.
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
“As Paul does also testify, saying that we are children of Abraham because of the similarity of our faith, and the promise of inheritance.” — editor's note: Rom. iv. 12; Gal. iv. 28.
Read the whole comment“Thus also the apostle says in the Epistle to the Galatians: “But ye, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 28.
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Tertullian
“What that digamy of Abraham portends, the same apostle fully teaches, the interpreter of each testament, just as he likewise lays it down that our “seed” is called in Isaac.” — editor's note: See Gal. iv. 21–31.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Far be it from us to deny that which is so great, since the Apostle says: “But ye brethren, like Isaac, are the children of promise, but as then, he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is after the Spirit.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 28, 29.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And we, brethren, are not children of the bond woman, but of the free, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–31.
Read the whole comment“…to God in the earth: but there are some things among them which are understood to pertain to both,—to the bond maid properly, to the free woman figuratively.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
Read the whole comment“Hence, that Jerusalem on earth was the shadow of the heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of us all, which is in heaven; and these are the apostle’s words.” — editor's note: Gen. xxi. 10; Gal. iv. 22–30.
Read the whole comment“…to the Jerusalem that is free, our eternal mother in heaven, the spiritual Sarah, who casteth out the bond maid and her children from the house of liberty.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.