Ga 4 (King James)

¹ 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 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
⁴ But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
⁵ To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
⁶ And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
⁷ Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
⁸ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
⁹ 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 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
¹² Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
¹³ Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
¹⁴ 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 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 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
¹⁸ But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
²⁰ I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
²¹ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
²³ But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
²⁴ 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 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
²⁶ But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
²⁷ 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 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
²⁹ But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
³⁰ 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 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Ga 4 (Stephanus 1550)

¹ λέγω δέ ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρόνον ὁ κληρονόμος νήπιός ἐστιν οὐδὲν διαφέρει δούλου κύριος πάντων ὤν
² ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ ἐπιτρόπους ἐστὶν καὶ οἰκονόμους ἄχρι τῆς προθεσμίας τοῦ πατρός
³ οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ὅτε ἦμεν νήπιοι ὑπὸ τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου ἦμεν δεδουλωμένοι
⁴ ὅτε δὲ ἦλθεν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικός γενόμενον ὑπὸ νόμον
⁵ ἵνα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον ἐξαγοράσῃ ἵνα τὴν υἱοθεσίαν ἀπολάβωμεν
⁶ ὅτι δέ ἐστε υἱοί ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, κρᾶζον αββα ὁ πατήρ
⁷ ὥστε οὐκέτι εἶ δοῦλος ἀλλ᾽ υἱός εἰ δὲ υἱός καὶ κληρονόμος θεοῦ διὰ χριστοῦ
⁸ ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες θεὸν ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς μὴ φύσει οὖσιν θεοῖς
⁹ νῦν δὲ γνόντες θεόν μᾶλλον δὲ γνωσθέντες ὑπὸ θεοῦ πῶς ἐπιστρέφετε πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀσθενῆ καὶ πτωχὰ στοιχεῖα οἷς πάλιν ἄνωθεν δουλεύειν θέλετε
¹⁰ ἡμέρας παρατηρεῖσθε καὶ μῆνας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτούς
¹¹ φοβοῦμαι ὑμᾶς μήπως εἰκῇ κεκοπίακα εἰς ὑμᾶς
¹² γίνεσθε ὡς ἐγώ ὅτι κἀγὼ ὡς ὑμεῖς ἀδελφοί δέομαι ὑμῶν οὐδέν με ἠδικήσατε
¹³ οἴδατε δὲ ὅτι δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς εὐηγγελισάμην ὑμῖν τὸ πρότερον
¹⁴ καὶ τὸν πειρασμὸν μου τὸν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μοῦ οὐκ ἐξουθενήσατε οὐδὲ ἐξεπτύσατε ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἄγγελον θεοῦ ἐδέξασθέ με ὡς χριστὸν ἰησοῦν
¹⁵ τίς οὖν ἧν ὁ μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν μαρτυρῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ δυνατὸν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν ἐξορύξαντες ἂν ἐδώκατέ μοι
¹⁶ ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν
¹⁷ ζηλοῦσιν ὑμᾶς οὐ καλῶς ἀλλὰ ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς θέλουσιν ἵνα αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε
¹⁸ καλὸν δὲ τὸ ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν καλῷ πάντοτε καὶ μὴ μόνον ἐν τῷ παρεῖναί με πρὸς ὑμᾶς
¹⁹ τεκνία μου οὓς πάλιν ὠδίνω ἄχρις οὗ μορφωθῇ χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν
²⁰ ἤθελον δὲ παρεῖναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἄρτι καὶ ἀλλάξαι τὴν φωνήν μου ὅτι ἀποροῦμαι ἐν ὑμῖν
²¹ λέγετέ μοι οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε
²² γέγραπται γὰρ ὅτι ἀβραὰμ δύο υἱοὺς ἔσχεν ἕνα ἐκ τῆς παιδίσκης καὶ ἕνα ἐκ τῆς ἐλευθέρας
²³ ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἐκ τῆς παιδίσκης κατὰ σάρκα γεγέννηται ὁ δὲ ἐκ τῆς ἐλευθέρας διὰ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας
²⁴ ἅτινά ἐστιν ἀλληγορούμενα αὗται γάρ εἰσιν αἱ δύο διαθῆκαι μία μὲν ἀπὸ ὄρους σινᾶ εἰς δουλείαν γεννῶσα ἥτις ἐστὶν ἁγάρ
²⁵ τὸ γὰρ ἁγὰρ σινᾶ ὄρος ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ ἀραβίᾳ συστοιχεῖ δὲ τῇ νῦν ἰερουσαλήμ δουλεύει δὲ μετὰ τῶν τέκνων αὐτῆς
²⁶ ἡ δὲ ἄνω ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστίν ἥτις ἐστὶν μήτηρ πάντων ἡμῶν
²⁷ γέγραπται γάρ εὐφράνθητι στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα
²⁸ ἡμεῖς δέ ἀδελφοί κατὰ ἰσαὰκ ἐπαγγελίας τέκνα ἐσμέν
²⁹ ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ τότε ὁ κατὰ σάρκα γεννηθεὶς ἐδίωκεν τὸν κατὰ πνεῦμα οὕτως καὶ νῦν
³⁰ ἀλλὰ τί λέγει ἡ γραφή ἕκβαλε τὴν παιδίσκην καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς οὐ γὰρ μὴ κληρονομήσῃ ὁ υἱὸς τῆς παιδίσκης μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς ἐλευθέρας
³¹ ἄρα, ἀδελφοί οὐκ ἐσμὲν παιδίσκης τέκνα ἀλλὰ τῆς ἐλευθέρας

Ga 4 (Vulgate)

¹ Dico autem : quanto tempore hæres parvulus est, nihil differt a servo, cum sit dominus omnium :
² sed sub tutoribus et actoribus est usque ad præfinitum tempus a patre :
³ ita et nos cum essemus parvuli, sub elementis mundi eramus servientes.
⁴ At ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege,
⁵ ut eos, qui sub lege erant, redimeret, ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus.
⁶ Quoniam autem estis filii, misit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda vestra, clamantem : Abba, Pater.
⁷ Itaque jam non est servus, sed filius : quod si filius, et hæres per Deum.
⁸ Sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum, iis, qui natura non sunt dii, serviebatis.
⁹ Nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum, immo cogniti sitis a Deo : quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma et egena elementa, quibus denuo servire vultis ?
¹⁰ Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos.
¹¹ Timeo vos, ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis.
¹² Estote sicut ego, quia et ego sicut vos : fratres, obsecro vos. Nihil me læsistis.
¹³ Scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis jampridem : et tentationem vestram in carne mea
¹⁴ non sprevistis, neque respuistis : sed sicut angelum Dei excepistis me, sicut Christum Jesum.
¹⁵ Ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra ? testimonium enim perhibeo vobis, quia, si fieri posset, oculos vestros eruissetis, et dedissetis mihi.
¹⁶ Ergo inimicus vobis factus sum, verum dicens vobis ?
¹⁷ Æmulantur vos non bene : sed excludere vos volunt, ut illos æmulemini.
¹⁸ Bonum autem æmulamini in bono semper : et non tantum cum præsens sum apud vos.
¹⁹ Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur Christus in vobis :
²⁰ vellem autem esse apud vos modo, et mutare vocem meam : quoniam confundor in vobis.
²¹ Dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse : legem non legistis ?
²² Scriptum est enim : Quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit : unum de ancilla, et unum de libera.
²³ Sed qui de ancilla, secundum carnem natus est : qui autem de libera, per repromissionem :
²⁴ quæ sunt per allegoriam dicta. Hæc enim sunt duo testamenta. Unum quidem in monte Sina, in servitutem generans, quæ est Agar :
²⁵ Sina enim mons est in Arabia, qui conjunctus est ei quæ nunc est Jerusalem, et servit cum filiis suis.
²⁶ Illa autem, quæ sursum est Jerusalem, libera est, quæ est mater nostra.
²⁷ Scriptum est enim : [Lætare, sterilis, quæ non paris ; erumpe et clama, quæ non parturis : quia multi filii desertæ, magis quam ejus quæ habet virum.]
²⁸ Nos autem, fratres, secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus.
²⁹ Sed quomodo tunc is, qui secundum carnem natus fuerat, persequebatur eum qui secundum spiritum : ita et nunc.
³⁰ Sed quid dicit Scriptura ? Ejice ancillam, et filium ejus : non enim hæres erit filius ancillæ cum filio liberæ.
³¹ Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillæ filii, sed liberæ : qua libertate Christus nos liberavit.