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Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though they actually own everything their father had.
Sons and Heirs
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set.
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.
Paul's Concern for the Galatians
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world?
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?
You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Surely you remember that I was sick when I first brought you the Good News.
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
But even though my condition tempted you to reject me, you did not despise me or turn me away. No, you took me in and cared for me as though I were an angel from God or even Christ Jesus himself.
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.
Where is that joyful and grateful spirit you felt then? I am sure you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me if it had been possible.
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.
Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Those false teachers are so eager to win your favor, but their intentions are not good. They are trying to shut you off from me so that you will pay attention only to them.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
If someone is eager to do good things for you, that’s all right; but let them do it all the time, not just when I’m with you.
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Oh, my dear children! I feel as if I’m going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
I wish I were with you right now so I could change my tone. But at this distance I don’t know how else to help you.
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Abraham’s Two Children
Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says?
Hagar and Sarah
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
The son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God’s promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God’s own fulfillment of his promise.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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.
And you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
But you are now being persecuted by those who want you to keep the law, just as Ishmael, the child born by human effort, persecuted Isaac, the child born by the power of the Spirit.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
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.