1. Galates 4:10 (NEG79)
  2. Explication du texte

What calendar is in view when Paul refers to "days and months and seasons and years"?

Galates 4:10 (NEG79)

10 Vous observez les jours, les mois, les temps et les années!

Though a pagan calendar is possible, the context of the letter as a whole suggests that the old covenant calendar is in view.1 The Galatian believers are giving themselves to keeping the old covenant law. Special days would then be Sabbaths and other festival days (Colossians 2:16). Months would be new moon observances (Numbers 28:11–15). Seasons would be feasts that last more than one day (Leviticus 23:1–44), and years are either Sabbatical or Jubilee years, possibly also new year celebrations.2