Matthew Poole and continuators on Galatians 4:19

19 My little children of whom I travel in birth again , until Christ be formed in you .

By calling them little Children, he both hints to them that he was their Spiritual Father, and had begotten them to Christ; and that they were as yet weak in the Faith, not grown men, but as yet little Children: and also hints to them, the tender affection he had towards them; which was the same as of a mother to her little children: though they did not own and honour him as their spiritual Father, yet he loved them as his little Children.

For whom I am in as great pain, through my earnest desire for the good of your Souls, as the Woman is that is in travail for the bringing forth of a Child.

Till Christ be fully and perfectly formed in you: that is, till you be brought off from your Iudaisme, and opinion of the necessity of superadding the works of the Law to the Faith of Christ in order to your Justification, and be rooted in the Truth and established in the liberty of the Gospel, with which Christ hath made you free.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 4.15. [illegible: 1 word]. 10. [illegible: 1 word]. 1.18.