Galatians 4
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.
1Dico autem: quanto tempore hæres parvulus est, nihil differt a servo, cum sit dominus omnium:
2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
2sed sub tutoribus et actoribus est usque ad præfinitum tempus a patre:
3So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
3ita et nos cum essemus parvuli, sub elementis mundi eramus servientes.
4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
4At ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege,
5to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
5ut eos, qui sub lege erant, redimeret, ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus.
6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
6Quoniam autem estis filii, misit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda vestra, clamantem: Abba, Pater.
7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
7Itaque jam non est servus, sed filius: quod si filius, et hæres per Deum.
8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
8Sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum, iis, qui natura non sunt dii, serviebatis.
9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
9Nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum, immo cogniti sitis a Deo: quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma et egena elementa, quibus denuo servire vultis?
10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
10Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos.
11I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
11Timeo vos, ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis.
12I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
12Estote sicut ego, quia et ego sicut vos: fratres, obsecro vos. Nihil me læsistis.
13You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
13Scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis jampridem: et tentationem vestram in carne mea
14And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
14non sprevistis, neque respuistis: sed sicut angelum Dei excepistis me, sicut Christum Jesum.
15What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
15Ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra? testimonium enim perhibeo vobis, quia, si fieri posset, oculos vestros eruissetis, et dedissetis mihi.
16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
16Ergo inimicus vobis factus sum, verum dicens vobis?
17Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
17Æmulantur vos non bene: sed excludere vos volunt, ut illos æmulemini.
18Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
18Bonum autem æmulamini in bono semper: et non tantum cum præsens sum apud vos.
19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
19Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur Christus in vobis:
20how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
20vellem autem esse apud vos modo, et mutare vocem meam: quoniam confundor in vobis.
21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
21Dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse: legem non legistis?
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
22Scriptum est enim: Quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit: unum de ancilla, et unum de libera.
23His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
23Sed qui de ancilla, secundum carnem natus est: qui autem de libera, per repromissionem:
24These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
24quæ sunt per allegoriam dicta. Hæc enim sunt duo testamenta. Unum quidem in monte Sina, in servitutem generans, quæ est Agar:
25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
25Sina enim mons est in Arabia, qui conjunctus est ei quæ nunc est Jerusalem, et servit cum filiis suis.
26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
26Illa autem, quæ sursum est Jerusalem, libera est, quæ est mater nostra.
27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
27Scriptum est enim: [Lætare, sterilis, quæ non paris; erumpe et clama, quæ non parturis: quia multi filii desertæ, magis quam ejus quæ habet virum.]
28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
28Nos autem, fratres, secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus.
29At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
29Sed quomodo tunc is, qui secundum carnem natus fuerat, persequebatur eum qui secundum spiritum: ita et nunc.
30But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
30Sed quid dicit Scriptura? Ejice ancillam, et filium ejus: non enim hæres erit filius ancillæ cum filio liberæ.
31Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
31Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillæ filii, sed liberæ: qua libertate Christus nos liberavit.
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