...is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you. 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you. PARAPHRASE....

...less tenderness and concern for those in Galatia, whom he addresses with more than paternal affection. "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." Such are the feelings of those who give themselves wholly to the ministry. Their hearts are so absorbed...

...commend to him the example of the great apostle, who, when he had to rebuke the fickle Oalatians, said," My little children, of whom I travail in birth, again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you : " and when...

...face, and said, O my lather, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! Gal. iv. 19. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. g Isa. xlix. 23. And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their queens thy nursing-mothers ; they...

...forth her children. •' Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring "forth? saith the Lord," "My little children of " whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be form" ed in you." " To Christ Jesus I have begotten " you through the gospel." " The God and Father...

...be present with you now, and to ehange my voiee; for I stand in doubt of you. 19 My little ehildren, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you, 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law ? 23 For it is written, that...

...such as had been converted by his instrumentality. Paul writes to his Christian friends at Galatia : " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." To the Corinthians he writes : " For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye...

...good totibe zealously affected always in a good thiny, and not only when I am présent with you. 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you, . 20 I désire to be présent with yon now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you. 21...

...experimental acquaintance with the subject; and will not readily, enter into the apostle's feelings, when he says, " My little children, of whom I " travail in birth again, till Christ is formed in you."* As for those, who had made shipwreck of their faith; before it is allowed,...

...Gentiles, and the persecutions she then underwent. " My little children," says St. Paul to the Galatians, " of whom I travail "in birth again until Christ be formed in you."J Some interpreters, and among them the respectable and learned Archdeacon Woodhouse, understand...