4:8 Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all. 2
4:13 But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,
1 tn Or “by sight”; Grk “by face.”
2 tn Grk “those that by nature…” with the word “beings” implied. BDAG 1070 s.v. φύσις 2 sees this as referring to pagan worship: “Polytheists worship…beings that are by nature no gods at all Gal 4:8.”