Hello, I'm Michael Barber, and this is my dear friend Jim Prothrown. We're both professors here at the

Augustine Institute, and you're joining us for a Bible study on Galatians. That shouldn't be a

surprise to you. That should be a big title above the video or something before you clicked on it.

So hopefully I'm not sharing anything new or giving you a spoiler. But what we're going to do now

is to continue our track through this amazing letter of St.. But what we're going to do now is to continue our track through

this amazing letter of St. Paul. And we're going to pick up in chapter four. And here in chapter

four, Paul builds on what he'd been talking about in the previous chapter where he identified

the way through Christ we become heirs of the promises made to Abraham.

And he says, I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,

though he is the owner of everything.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. And we talked

about this, how people in the ancient world would have servants, a pedagogue, and then the

children would be under that servant for some period of time. And while the children are young,

they don't have all the rights of the owner of the estate, right?

They are under these other servants.

They have to obey.

And so that's what Paul's talking about here.

And he says, in the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved to, now,

there's a issue with how to translate this expression here but the ESV has a perfectly

fine rendering the elementary principles it says of the world so we were confined to the to the basic

elements of this world now in greek the word stoichi can also have the basic elements of this world. Now, in Greek, the word Stoichiya can also have the

connotation of spirits or powers. And some people see here the idea that you're under angels.

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