God's Redeeming Love
Dr. Guthrie. Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,… An ancient historian tells us that, at the siege of Babylon, Darius condemned to the cross three thousand captives. Another relates how, when Alexander inflicted long-threatened vengeance on Tyre, he crucified two thousand prisoners, and that crosses stood on her bloody shores thicker than ship masts in her crowded harbour. And when the Roman let fly his eagles against Jerusalem, Titus, measuring out to the Jews the measure they had meted to Jesus, gave them crosses enough, "good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running ever." A spectator of the scenes, the dreadful tragic scenes, amid which Judah's sun set in blood for ever, tells that wood was wanting for crosses, and crosses were wanting for bodies. Yet had Babylon's, Tyre's, Jerusalem's, all these crosses been raised to save you, and on each cross of that forest, not a man, but a dying angel hung, had all heaven been crucified, here is greater love, a greater spectacle. God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Dr. Guthrie.) Parallel Verses KJV: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, WEB: But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,