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4:5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
4:6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.
4:7. Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an
heir also through God.
4:8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature,
are not gods.
4:9. But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God:
how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to
serve again?
4:10. You observe days and months and times, and years.
You observe days, etc... He speaks not of the observation of the Lord's
day, or other Christian festivals; but either of the superstitious
observation of days lucky and unlucky; or else of the Jewish festivals,
to the observance of which, certain Jewish teachers sought to induce the
Galatians.
4:11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among
you.
4:12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You
have not injured me at all.
4:13. And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the
gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh.
4:14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of
God, even as Christ Jesus.
4:15. Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if it
could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have
given them to me.
4:16. Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
4:17. They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude
you, that you might be zealous for them.
4:18. But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and
not only when I am present with you.
4:19. My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be
formed in you.
4:20. And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice:
because I am ashamed for you.
4:21. Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read
the law?
4:22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a
bondwoman and the other by a free woman.
4:23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh:
but he of the free woman was by promise.
4:24. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two
testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is
Agar.
4:25. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that
Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.
4:26. But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.
4:27. For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break
forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the
desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.
4:28. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
4:29. But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him
that was after the spirit: so also it is now.
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