“The elements of the world were thought to have in themselves at the same time their own motions and, as it were, certain necessary consequences of the motion of other beings, such as stars, by whose revolution human life was brought under necessity. And so humans served the elements as the stars ordained and the cours…”
Gaius Marius Victorinus, 4th c. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.4.3-4
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3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
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1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
— Galatians 4:3 —
4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.