Notes on The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
4:3 Under the elements, etc: That is, under the first rudiments of religion, in which the carnal Jews were trained up; or under those corporeal creatures, used in their manifold rites, sacrifices, and sacraments.
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