Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
All Commentaries on Galatians 4:3 Go To Galatians 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Under the elements of the world. St. 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)