SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:28
Así que, hermanos, nosotros como Isaac, somos hijos de la promesa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Galatians 4:28
Verse 28. Now we] Who believe in the Lord Jesus, are the children of promise - are the spiritual offspring of the Messiah, the seed of Abraham, in whom the promise stated that all the nations of the earth should be blessed.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was , etc..] The Ethiopic version reads, you, brethren; and so one of Stephens's copies. As the two women, Hagar and Sarah, might be, and are allegorized; so likewise their respective offspring. Isaac signified, and was a type and figure of Abraham's spiritual seed, whether Jews or Gentiles, under the Gospel dispensation: and as he was, so they are, the children of promise ; as Isaac was promised unto Abraham, so were this spiritual seed, when it was said unto him, that he should be the father of many nations, as he is the father of us all, even of all them that believe, be they of what nation soever; and as Isaac was born by virtue, and in consequence of a promise made to Abraham of God's free good will and pleasure, and his generation and conception were beyond the strength and course of nature, were the effects of a divine power, and were something supernatural; so this spiritual seed are born again, by virtue, and in consequence of a promise, not only made to Abraham, but to the Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the covenant, that he should see his seed, enjoy a numerous offspring, and which should endure for ever; and also to the church, of whom it is said, that this and that man should be born in her; and particularly in consequence of the promise cited in the foregoing verse, from whence these words are an inference, deduction, or illustration: and these children of the promise, so called from hence, are born again, above and beyond the strength of nature; not through the power and free will of man, but through the abundant mercy and sovereign will of God, by his powerful and efficacious grace, and by the word of promise, the Gospel, as a means. Moreover, to these children, or spiritual seed of Abraham, signified by Isaac, do all the promises belong, as that of God, as a covenant God gave unto them; of Christ, as a Saviour and Redeemer; of the Holy Spirit, as a sanctifier and comforter; and of all good things, of temporal mercies, so far as are for their real good; and of all spiritual blessings, as righteousness, peace, pardon, comfort, all supplies of grace, and eternal life: and these likewise receive these promises; the Holy Spirit, as a spirit of promise, opens and applies them to them, puts them into the hand of faith, and enables them to plead them with God, and to believe the performance of them; so that this character in all respects agrees with them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 28-31 - The history thus explained is applied. So then, brethren, we are no children of the bond-woman, but of the free. If the privileges of all believers were so great, according to the new covenant, how absurd for the Gentile converts to be under that law, which could not deliver the unbelieving Jews from bondage or condemnation! We should not have foun out this allegory in the history of Sarah and Hagar, if it had not bee shown to us, yet we cannot doubt it was intended by the Holy Spirit. It is an explanation of the subject, not an argument in proof of it. The two covenants of works and grace, and legal and evangelical professors are shadowed forth. Works and fruits brought forth in a man's ow strength, are legal. But if arising from faith in Christ, they ar evangelical. The first covenant spirit is of bondage unto sin an death. The second covenant spirit is of liberty and freedom; no liberty to sin, but in and unto duty. The first is a spirit of persecution; the second is a spirit of love. Let those professors loo to it, who have a violent, harsh, imposing spirit, towards the people of God. Yet as Abraham turned aside to Hagar, so it is possible believer may turn aside in some things to the covenant of works, when through unbelief and neglect of the promise he acts according to the law, in his own strength; or in a way of violence, not of love, toward the brethren. Yet it is not his way, not his spirit to do so; hence he is never at rest, till he returns to his dependence on Christ again Let us rest our souls on the Scriptures, and by a gospel hope an cheerful obedience, show that our conversation and treasure are indee in heaven __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
αλλ 235 CONJ ωσπερ 5618 ADV τοτε 5119 ADV ο 3588 T-NSM κατα 2596 PREP σαρκα 4561 N-ASF γεννηθεις 1080 5685 V-APP-NSM εδιωκεν 1377 5707 V-IAI-3S τον 3588 T-ASM κατα 2596 PREP πνευμα 4151 N-ASN ουτως 3779 ADV και 2532 CONJ νυν 3568 ADV
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:28 {Now we} (hemeis de). Some MSS. have humeis de (now ye). In either case Paul means that Christians (Jews and Gentiles) are children of the promise as Isaac was (kata Isaak, after the manner of Isaac).
