Gal Galatians, chapter Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 4
And I say, now as much time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, [though] being lord of all, but is under tutors and stewards until the time appointed of the father, so we also, when we were children, were in servitude under the elements of the world, and when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, that He may redeem those under law, that we may receive the adoption as sons; and because yöu are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into yöur hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So that you are no longer a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ. But then, indeed, having not known God, yöu were in servitude to those [that are] not by nature gods, and now, having known God—and rather being known by God—how [do] yöu turn again to the weak and poor elements to which yöu desire anew to be in servitude? Yöu observe days, and months, and times, and years! I am afraid for yöu, lest I labored in vain for yöu. I implore yöu, brothers, become as I [am]—because I also [am] as yöu; yöu did not hurt me; and yöu have known that through weakness of the flesh I proclaimed good news to yöu at the first, and yöu did not despise nor reject my trial that [is] in my flesh, but yöu received me as a messenger of God—as Christ Jesus; what then was yöur blessedness? For I testify to yöu, that if possible, having plucked out yöur eyes, yöu would have given [them] to me; so have I become yöur enemy, being true to yöu? They are zealous for yöu—[yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that yöu may be zealous for them; and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with yöu; my little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ may be formed in yöu, indeed I was wishing to be present with yöu now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about yöu. Tell me, yöu who are willing to be under law, do yöu not hear the Law? For it has been written that Abraham had two sons, one by the maidservant and one by the free [woman], but he who [is] of the maidservant has been according to flesh, but he who [is] of the free [woman], through the promise, which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from Mount Sinai, bringing forth to servitude, which is Hagar; for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children, and the Jerusalem above is the free [woman], which is mother of us all, for it has been written: “Rejoice, O barren, who is not bearing; break forth and cry, you who are not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate—more than of her having the husband.” And we, brothers, as Isaac, are children of promise, but as he then who was born according to the flesh persecuted him [born] according to the Spirit, so also now; but what does the Writing say? “Cast forth the maidservant and her son, for the son of the maidservant may not be heir with the son of the free [woman]”; then, brothers, we are not a maidservant’s children, but the free [woman’s].