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Originally Posted by Amanah

interesting, it seems you may be correct.

any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang...gs=G4747&t=KJV

I believe that's what Paul meant in Gal 4 about the elements of the world, since he is speaking about Law. The elements of the world in Gal 4 are not BAD things. They're law keeping rites. Law is elementary. Elements are necessary and good building blocks. But Paul was saying there that the days of ABC building blocks of law keeping are gone. It's the same greek word used in Col 2 also where we read about the rudiments of the world.

Law was called elements of the world because it used material rituals and physical rites that formed as foreshadows of the new.