Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Now I say. This is closely connected with vers24,25 of the preceding chapter, where it was said that "the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, but after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster." He proceeds to prove this at greater length, and begins with the example of a child who is under tutors.
The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant. An infant, as the Greek word Isaiah , who has not yet attained to years of discretion, inasmuch as he is under a tutor and a pdagogue, and cannot exercise the right of dominion over his property, is in the position of a slave rather than a lord, nay, he is subject to a slave, viz, his pdagogue, and is under tutors and governors.
