Galatians 4:31 (WEB)
So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
Catechism · 1
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…
Fathers and councils · 7
Gregory of Nyssa
“All these are children of the free-woman.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 31.
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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.
Read the whole comment“Nay, rather banish quite away from your “free” head all this slavery of ornamentation.” — editor's note: Comp. Gal. iv. 31; v. 13.
Read the whole comment“…the promise of (Christ’s) holy church; by reason of which he adds in conclusion: “So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–26, 31.
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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“…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 · 5
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 The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.