Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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Study Note
Paul's rhetorical question 'how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?' is deliberately paradoxical: the Galatians are turning back to Torah-observance, but Paul characterizes this as returning to the same 'elements' (stoicheia) from which they were freed when they were pagans. The equation of pagan religious practice and Torah observance as equally 'weak and beggarly' when functioning as means of justification is Paul's most radical challenge to Jewish-Christian identity, provoking extensive commentary from patristic readers onward. The reversal of the knowledge relationship — from 'having known God' to 'being known by God' — relocates the epistemological foundation in divine election rather than human religious achievement, anticipating the Romans 8:29 logic of foreknowledge. The verse has been central to debates about the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in Pauline scholarship.
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but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
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