A commentary of M. I. Calvin upon the Epistle to the GalatiansA commentarie of M. I. Caluine vpon the Epistle to the Galathians

6 Now because you be sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his son into your harts, crying Abba Father. 7 Therefore thou art no longer a servant, but a son. if thou be a son, thou art also an heir of God by Christ. 8 But than when as yet ye knew not God, you served those things which by nature are no Gods. 9 But now after the have known God, or rather have been known of God: how are you turned again to weak and beggarly elements, which you are willing again to serve afresh? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. ⟨p. 91⟩11 I am afraid for you, least happily I have laboured among you in vain.

6 Now because you be sonnes, God hath sent the Spirite of his sonne into your harts, crying Abba Father. 7 Therefore thou art no longer a seruaunt, but a sonne. if thou be a sonne, thou arte also an heyre of God by Christ. 8 But than whē as yet ye knew not God, you serued those thinges which by nature are no Gods. 9 But now after ye haue known God, or rather haue bene knowne of God: howe are you turned againe to weake and beggerly elements, which you are willing againe to serue afresh? 10 Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and tymes, and yeres. ⟨p. 91⟩11 I am afrayde for you, least happilye I haue laboured among you in vaine.

6 Because you be sons.) He showeth that the adoption which he speaketh of, belongeth unto the Galatians, by an argument or reason gathered of the consequent or thing following. For, to be adopted of God, goeth before this, To have the testimony of adoption, of the Spirit of God: but the effect is the token of the cause. The spirit of Christ▪ saith he, is the Author unto you, and persuader to embolden you to call God Father. than is it certain that you are the sons of God. He meaneth that which he often teacheth 1. Cor. 1.22