Galatians 4:27 BSB — MannaFest

Galatians 4:27

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

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ASV

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

KJV

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

The Proof of the Apostolic Preaching (202)

Wherefore the Church beareth much fruit of the redeemed: because no longer Moses (as) mediator nor Elijah (as) messenger, but the Lord Himself has redeemed us, granting many more children to the Church than to the first Synagogue; as Isaiah declared, saying: "Rejoice thou barren, that didst not bear." The barren is the Church, which never at all in former times presented sons to God. "Cry out and call, thou that didst not travail: for the children of the desolate are more than of her which hath an husband." Now the first Synagogue had as husband the Law.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For it is written,.... Isa 44:1, which is cited to prove, that the heavenly Jerusalem, or Gospel church state, is the mother of us all, and has brought forth, and still will bring forth, many souls to Christ, even many more than were under the legal dispensation by the Jewish church, though the Lord was an husband to them, Jer 31:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The former, Agar, represented that which was given from mount Sinai, and which gendereth to bondage, which, though it was a dispensation of grace, yet, in comparison of the gospel state, was a dispensation of bondage, and became more so to the Jews, through their mistake of the design of it, and expecting to be justified by the works of it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For it is written - This passage is found in Isa 54:1. For an exposition of its meaning as it occurs there, see my notes at Isaiah. The object of the apostle in introducing it here seems to be to prove that the Gentiles as well as the Jews would partake of the privileges connected with the heavenly Jerusalem. He had in the previous verse spoken of the Jerusalem from above as the common mother of all, true Christians, whether by birth Jews or Gentiles.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
γέγραπται	gegraptai	It has been written	G1125 →
γάρ·	gar	for:	G1063 →
εὐφράνθητι	euphranthēti	do rejoice	G2165 →
στεῖρα	steira	O barren woman	G4723 →
ἡ	hē	you who [are]	G3588 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
τίκτουσα,	tiktousa	bearing,	G5088 →
ῥῆξον	rhēxon	do break forth	G4486 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βόησον	boēson	do call aloud	G994 →
ἡ	hē	you who [are]	G3588 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ὠδίνουσα,	ōdinousa	travailing,	G5605 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
πολλὰ	polla	many	G4183 →
τὰ	ta	[are] the	G3588 →
τέκνα	tekna	children	G5043 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ἐρήμου	erēmou	desolate woman	G2048 →
μᾶλλον	mallon	more	G3123 →
ἢ	ē	than	G2228 →
τῆς	tēs	of [her] who	G3588 →
ἐχούσης	echousēs	having	G2192 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἄνδρα.	andra	husband.	G435 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
leads to
- Isaiah 54:1
  “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 68:6
  God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- 1 Samuel 2:5
  The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Genesis 30:22–23
  Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- Genesis 21:5–7
  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Through
1 Samuel 2:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
leads to
- Psalms 113:9
  He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Luke 1:53
  He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Jeremiah 15:9
  The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Galatians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Galatians