The Fulness of Time (4)

The term time, in the expression fullness of time, so we wrote in a former article, denotes, as the setting of the text in which the term appears, the duration of the state of minority of the Old Testament church. While in this state the church was under a school­master or governor who brought it to Christ. In the pre-Messianic period, the church being a minor, was trained unto Christ. The trainer was the law in conjunction with the promises. With the church trained the time was full, so to...