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In his commentary on Galatians, Thomas R. Schreiner presents a brief and lucid commentary for pastors, students, and laypeople, while also attending to questions that have arisen in light of the New Perspective on Paul. Schreiner, endorsing a Reformation reading of the text, reminds readers of Paul’s chief concerns in writing the letter: justification by faith, the full divinity of Christ,...

4:9a–b But now that you have come to know God, or rather you have been known by God (νῦν δὲ γνόντες θεόν, μᾶλλον δὲ γνωσθέντες ὑπὸ θεοῦ). A beautiful picture of conversion is drawn here (cf. 1 Thess 1:9), as Paul contrasts “then” (τότε, 4:8) and “now” (νῦν)—their former lives and their new life in Christ. Then they did not know God, but when the Galatians were converted, they came to know God.4 Such knowledge is not merely abstract and impersonal but has a personal and warm dimension,
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