Chapter 4
NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs 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, Yah sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the Torah,
5 To redeem them that were under the Torah, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, Yah has sent forth the Spirit that was in 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 Yah through the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
8 But then, when you did not know Yah, you did service to them which by nature are not mighty ones.
9 But now, after that you have known Yah, or rather are known of Yah, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid for you, lest I have laboured in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Good News to you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as a messenger of Yah, even as The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua.
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you 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 are ardent towards you, but not for good; but, they would shut you out, that you might be ardent toward them.
18 But it is good to be ardent always in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah is 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, you that desire to be under the Torah, do you not hear the Torah?
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 brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar.
25 For this Haḡar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
26 But Yerushalayim which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that do not have birth pains: for the deserted one has many more children than she that has a husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Yitshaq 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 writings? 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.