Galatas 4
1 Dico autem: Quanto tempore heres parvulus est, nihil differt a servo, cum sit dominus omnium:
NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 sed sub tutoribus, et actoribus est usque ad praefinitum tempus a patre:
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 ita et nos cum essemus parvuli, sub elementis mundi eramus servientes.
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 At ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege,
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 ut eos, qui sub lege erant, redimeret, ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus.
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 Quoniam autem estis filii, misit Deus Spiritum filii Dei sui in corda vestra clamantem: Abba, Pater.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Itaque iam non est servus, sed filius: Quod si filius: et heres per Deum.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum, iis, qui natura non sunt dii, serviebatis.
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 Nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum, immo cogniti sitis a Deo: quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma, et egena elementa, quibus denuo servire vultis?
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 Timeo, ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Estote sicut ego, quia et ego sicut vos: fratres obsecro vos. Nihil me laesistis.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13 Scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis iampridem: et tentationem vestram in carne mea
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 non sprevistis, neque respuistis: sed sicut Angelum Dei excepistis me, sicut Christum Iesum.
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra? Testimonium enim perhibeo vobis, quia, si fieri posset, oculos vestros eruissetis, et dedissetis mihi.
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Ergo inimicus vobis factus sum, verum dicens vobis?
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 Aemulantur vos non bene: sed excludere vos volunt, ut illos aemulemini.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18 Bonum autem aemulamini in bono semper: et non tantum cum praesens sum apud vos.
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur Christus in vobis.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 Vellem autem esse apud vos modo, et mutare vocem meam: quoniam confundor in vobis.
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse: legem non legistis?
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 Scriptum est enim: Quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit: unum de ancilla, et unum de libera.
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 Sed qui de ancilla, secundum carnem natus est: qui autem de libera, per repromissionem:
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 quae sunt per allegoriam dicta. Haec enim sunt duo testamenta. Unum quidem in monte Sina, in servitutem generans: quae est Agar:
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 Sina enim mons est in Arabia, qui coniunctus est ei, quae nunc est Ierusalem, et servit cum filiis suis.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 Illa autem, quae sursum est Ierusalem, libera est, quae est mater nostra.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 Scriptum est enim: Laetare sterilis, quae non paris: erumpe, et clama, quae non parturis: quia multi filii desertae, magis quam eius, quae habet virum.
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Nos autem fratres secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 Sed quomodo tunc is, qui secundum carnem natus fuerat, persequebatur eum, qui secundum spiritum: ita et nunc.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Sed quid dicit Scriptura? Eiice ancillam, et filium eius: non heres erit filius ancillae cum filio liberae.
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillae filii, sed liberae: qua libertate Christus nos liberavit.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
