...yet only when fully formed do they go into labor. One might be surprised by his statement: "You with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you," We are to understand this travail to stand for the agonies of concern that they might be born in Christ....

...scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus... My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you! (Gal 4:13-14, 19) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power...

...seasons, and years. I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain." " My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you." Again he says in 1 Corinthians iii: " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...

...and to die is gain (Phil 1:21). Paul even wants us to share this reality: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you" (Gal 4: 19). Examples can be multiplied, but the point is clear: we are dealing here with a relationship...

...What did the most holy Paul have in mind when he wrote to certain people: 'My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!' (Gal. 4:19), and indeed in another passage to those who through faith had attained perfection in the...

...always good to be made much of, and not only when I am present with you. l9My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you! 20I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. The...

...minds." In Gal 4:19 Paul expresses another but very similar transformation: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you 9. Scholars like Kim who want to ground all of Paul's thought in a single ecstatic conversion experience,...

...1). Paul's deeply-wounded parental spirit comes out vividly as he writes, "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you! I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you" (4:19-20)....

...letter to the Galatians when the Jewish element again threatened their faith: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail, until Christ be formed in you" (Gal. 4:19). It was a work that required toil, to emancipate these children from their spiritual slavery,...

...Christians but needed to make a fresh definite choice of action if they were to be fully Christian. " My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you," is exactly like " Since Jesus suffered sacrificially without the gate, let us go forth unto him without...