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Paul's rebuke in Galatians 4, which Neville turns on the church calendar every time he lectures inside one. You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years - I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. He gives the surrounding sentence where he wants the force of it: formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings who by nature are no gods; but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back? The application is always local and dated - here we are in what is called a season, the Lenten season, and then another season and another month; a few years ago we had the Marian Year - and elsewhere it is a saint's day, or the crowded week of observances, or the sabbath. The objection is not to reverence but to timing: the event these days commemorate can take place at any moment of any day of the year, so waiting for the thirtieth of November, or for Holy Week, is the bondage Paul is describing. It stands beside his reading of Galatians 4:14, where the phrase 'as an angel of God' is called an insertion to cushion what the next phrase actually says - they received him as Christ Jesus.

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Galatians 4:10-11 | You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain

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Here we are in what is called “a season” - the Lenten Season - and then we have another season and another month. A few years ago we had the Marian Year, and all this goes all the way back.
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“I see as I pass by that you are observing days and weeks and seasons and years. I am afraid I have labored over you in vain”
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