NEW TESTAMENT

Galatians 4:3

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So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

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Verse 3. Under the elements of the world. Saint John Chrysostom understands the exterior ceremonies and precepts of the law of Moses, with an allusion to the first elements or rudiments which children are taught. Witham.

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