Galatians 4
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
1Dico autem: quanto tempore hæres parvulus est, nihil differt a servo, cum sit dominus omnium:
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
2sed sub tutoribus et actoribus est usque ad præfinitum tempus a patre:
3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
3ita et nos cum essemus parvuli, sub elementis mundi eramus servientes.
4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
4At ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege,
5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
5ut eos, qui sub lege erant, redimeret, ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus.
6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
6Quoniam autem estis filii, misit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda vestra, clamantem: Abba, Pater.
7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
7Itaque jam non est servus, sed filius: quod si filius, et hæres per Deum.
8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
8Sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum, iis, qui natura non sunt dii, serviebatis.
9But 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?
9Nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum, immo cogniti sitis a Deo: quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma et egena elementa, quibus denuo servire vultis?
10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
10Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos.
11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
11Timeo vos, ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis.
12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am ; for I am as ye are : ye have not injured me at all.
12Estote sicut ego, quia et ego sicut vos: fratres, obsecro vos. Nihil me læsistis.
13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
13Scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis jampridem: et tentationem vestram in carne mea
14And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
14non sprevistis, neque respuistis: sed sicut angelum Dei excepistis me, sicut Christum Jesum.
15Where 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.
15Ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra? testimonium enim perhibeo vobis, quia, si fieri posset, oculos vestros eruissetis, et dedissetis mihi.
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
16Ergo inimicus vobis factus sum, verum dicens vobis?
17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
17Æmulantur vos non bene: sed excludere vos volunt, ut illos æmulemini.
18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing , and not only when I am present with you.
18Bonum autem æmulamini in bono semper: et non tantum cum præsens sum apud vos.
19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
19Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur Christus in vobis:
20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
20vellem autem esse apud vos modo, et mutare vocem meam: quoniam confundor in vobis.
21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
21Dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse: legem non legistis?
22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
22Scriptum est enim: Quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit: unum de ancilla, et unum de libera.
23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
23Sed qui de ancilla, secundum carnem natus est: qui autem de libera, per repromissionem:
24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
24quæ sunt per allegoriam dicta. Hæc enim sunt duo testamenta. Unum quidem in monte Sina, in servitutem generans, quæ est Agar:
25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
25Sina enim mons est in Arabia, qui conjunctus est ei quæ nunc est Jerusalem, et servit cum filiis suis.
26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
26Illa autem, quæ sursum est Jerusalem, libera est, quæ est mater nostra.
27For 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.
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 we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
28Nos autem, fratres, secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus.
29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
29Sed quomodo tunc is, qui secundum carnem natus fuerat, persequebatur eum qui secundum spiritum: ita et nunc.
30Nevertheless 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.
30Sed quid dicit Scriptura? Ejice ancillam, et filium ejus: non enim hæres erit filius ancillæ cum filio liberæ.
31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
31Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillæ filii, sed liberæ: qua libertate Christus nos liberavit.
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