Whiston(i)
1 Now I say, 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 ons, 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 who 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 formerly.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh, ye despised not, nor rejected but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
15 What a blessedness yours was then? for I bear you record, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have even given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, not well; yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them: But be zealous for the better gifts.
18 [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 bond-maid, the other by a free-woman.
23 But he of the bond-woman, was born after the flesh: but he of the free-woman by promise.
24 Which things are allegorized: for these are two covenants; the one from mount Sinai, which begetteth children to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, for she is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above, is free, which is our mother.
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 who hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
30 Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son: for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
31 So, Brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.