Galatským 4
1 Pravímť pak, že pokudž dědic maličký jest, nic není rozdílný od služebníka, jsa pánem všeho,
Now, I [will further] discuss [children and heirs]: [An heir is a person who will later] control all that his father has. But as long as that heir is a child, others [control] him, with the result that he is just like a slave [MET].
2 Ale pod ochráncemi a správcemi jest až do času uloženého od otce.
Until the [day that] his father [previously] determined, [other] persons supervise him and manage his father’s property.
3 Tak i my když jsme byli maličcí, pod živly světa byli jsme v službu podrobeni.
Likewise, when we [(inc)] (OR, we [(exc) Jews]) were [like] young children [MET], we were controlled by the spiritual powers of this world. They controlled us like [masters control their slaves] [MET].
4 Ale když přišla plnost času, poslal Bůh Syna svého učiněného z ženy, učiněného pod zákonem,
But exactly at the time [MTY] [that God had previously determined], he sent [Jesus], who is (his Son/the man who is also God), into the world. Jesus was born to a [human] mother. He had to obey the laws [that God gave to Moses].
5 Aby ty, kteříž pod zákonem byli, vykoupil, abychom právo synů přijali.
God sent Jesus in order that he might redeem us who had to obey [God’s] laws. God wanted us all to receive from [God] the status of being his children [MET].
6 A že jste synové, poslal Bůh Ducha Syna svého v srdce vaše, volajícího: Abba, Otče.
Furthermore, we know that we are God’s children because God sent the Spirit, who is intimately related to Jesus, to live in our (inner beings/hearts). [The Spirit enables us to] pray fervently, “Daddy, Father!” [This shows that we are God’s children].
7 A tak již nejsi slouha, ale syn, a poněvadž syn, tedy i dědic Boží skrze Krista.
So, [because of what God has done], no longer is [each of] you [like] a slave. Instead, [each of you is] a child [of God]. Furthermore, since [each of you is God’s] child, God has also made you his heir, [one who will receive all that he has promised].
8 Ale tehdáž, neznavše Boha, sloužili jste těm, kteříž z přirození nejsou bohové.
When you did not have a relationship with God [MET], you served gods that really did not exist [MET]. You were their slaves.
9 Nyní pak, znajíce Boha, nýbrž poznáni jsouce od Boha, kterakž se zpátkem zase obracíte k mdlým a bídným živlům, jimž opět znovu chcete sloužiti?
But now you have come to know God. Perhaps [it would be better to say that] now God knows you. [So now you are acting foolishly]! (You are again believing [that by obeying] rules and rites [you will benefit spiritually]! [RHQ] [Those rules are] ineffective and inadequate! You are wanting to [obey them] again [MET] like slaves obey their masters. [RHQ]
10 Dnů šetříte, a měsíců, a časů, i let.
You [non-Jews] are carefully practicing [Jewish rules and rituals about what you should do] (on [Sabbaths/on Jewish days of rest]) and [on the first day of each] month and on [special] seasons and years.
11 Bojím se za vás, abych snad nadarmo nepracoval mezi vámi.
I (worry/am concerned) about your [mistaken ideas. I do not want] to have [so] strenuously served you in vain.
12 Buďte jako já, nebo i já jsem jako vy, bratří, prosím vás. Nic jste mi neublížili.
My fellow believers, I strongly urge you that you do as I do. [Stop thinking that you have to obey (Jewish rules and rituals/ceremonial laws]). [When I was with you], I [did not obey all the Jewish rules and rituals], just like you [did not obey them]. [At that time] you treated me entirely as you should have [LIT].
13 Nebo víte, že s mdlobou těla kázal jsem vám evangelium ponejprvé.
You know that the first time I preached to you, [I went to your area to regain my health, because I was physically weak].
14 A pokušení mé na těle mém nebylo u vás málo váženo, aniž jste pohrdli, ale jako anděla Božího přijali jste mne, jako Krista Ježíše.
[Although] you might have [despised me because] I was physically weak, you did not despise me or act contemptuously/disrespectfully toward me. Instead, you welcomed me like [you would welcome] an angel from God. [You welcomed me] like [you would welcome] Christ Jesus!
15 Jaké tehdy bylo blahoslavenství vaše? Svědectvíť vám zajisté dávám, že kdyby to možné bylo, oči své vyloupíce, byli byste mi dali.
(I am disappointed that you have forgotten [that then] you [declared that you were] pleased with [me]./Have you forgotten [that then] you [declared that you were] pleased with [me]?) [RHQ] I can testify that you [would have done anything to help me]. You would have gouged out your eyes [and] given them to me, [if that would have helped me]!
16 Což tedy učiněn jsem vaším nepřítelem, pravdu vám pravě?
So I am very disappointed that you [now] act as though [RHQ] I have become hostile to you [because I have kept] speaking the true [message about Christ] to you.
17 Milujíť vás nedobře, nýbrž odstrčiti nás chtějí, abyste vy je milovali.
Those [who are insisting on obeying Jewish rules] are eagerly [showing interest in] you, but [what they are doing is] not good. They even want you not to associate with [me and other true] believers, because they want you to eagerly show [interest in] them, [not in us].
18 Slušnéť jest pak horlivě milovati v dobrém vždycky, a ne jen toliko tehdáž, když jsem přítomen vám.
But [just like] it always feels good to have others show that they appreciate you, [I would like you] always [to appreciate me], and not only when I am with you.
19 Synáčkové moji, (kteréž opět rodím, až by Kristus zformován byl v vás, )
You [who are like] my children, [once] again I am very worried/concerned about you [MET], [and I will continue to] be worried/concerned until Christ’s [nature becomes developed] in you [completely and wholeheartedly] [MET] [as a child] becomes developed [in his mother’s womb].
20 Chtěl bych přítomen vám býti nyní, a proměniti hlas svůj; nebo v pochybnosti jsem o vás.
But I do wish that I could be with you now and that I might talk [more gently with you], because I do not know [what to do about] you [while we are apart].
21 Povězte mi, kteří pod zákonem chcete býti, nepozorujete-liž zákona?
Some of you desire [to obey all the laws] that God gave Moses. [I say that] you [should] consider [RHQ] [the implications of what Moses wrote in] the Scriptures.
22 Nebo psáno jest: Že Abraham měl dva syny, jednoho z děvky, a druhého z svobodné.
[He] wrote that Abraham became the father of two sons. His female slave, [Hagar], bore one son, and his [wife Sarah], who was not a slave, bore the other.
23 Ale ten z děvky podlé těla se narodil, ten pak z svobodné podlé zaslíbení.
Also, [the sons differed. Ishmael], the [son born by] the female slave, was conceived naturally. But [Isaac], the [son born by] his wife who was not a slave, was conceived [miraculously] as a result of what [God] had promised [Abraham].
24 Kteréžto věci u figůře se staly. Nebo toť jsou ti dva zákonové, jeden s hory Sinai, k manství zplozující, a tenť jest jako Agar.
[I am telling you this] as an illustration. These [two women] symbolize two agreements. [God made] the first [agreement, which involved obeying the laws that God gave to Moses] at Sinai Mountain. [Because that agreement forces those who accept it to keep obeying all its rules] [MET], [it is like a slave mother who] gives birth to slaves. [So] Hagar, [the female slave, symbolizes] that [agreement].
25 Agar zajisté jest hora Sinai v Arabii. Dobřeť se pak k ní trefuje nynější Jeruzalém, nebo v službu podroben jest s syny svými.
Also, the [word] ‘Hagar’ is [associated with] Sinai Mountain, [which is] in Arabia [land. Hagar, the female slave, also] represents Jerusalem as it is today. Jerusalem is [like] [MET] a slave [mother, and those who live there] [PRS] [are like] her slave children [MET] [because they all must obey the laws that God gave to Moses].
26 Ale ten svrchní Jeruzalém svobodný jest, kterýž jest matka všech nás.
But there will be a [new] Jerusalem in heaven [MTY], and we [who will go there] are free [from having to obey Jewish laws]. We [who belong to that city consider it to be] our mother [MET] [city because we are God’s true children].
27 Nebo psáno jest: Vesel se neplodná, kteráž nerodíš, vykřikni a zvolej, kteráž nepracuješ ku porodu; nebo ta opuštěná mnoho má synů, více než ta, kteráž má muže.
[Our new city will have more people than those who live in Jerusalem now. It will be just like] Isaiah foretold about [the people whom he expected would come back to Jerusalem from exile. He expected that they would be more numerous than those who] were taken into exile. He wrote: [You who live in Jerusalem, you will] rejoice! Now you have no children, like a barren [woman] who does not give birth to [children! But some day you will] shout [joyfully], (without restraint/as loudly as you can), [even though now you are few in number, like a woman who] cannot give birth [to children, and you] feel deserted. [You will be very happy] because [you will have many children who will come to you. Those children will be] more than [the children] any woman with a husband [could have borne].
28 Myť jsme tedy, ó bratří, tak jako Izák, synové zaslíbení.
Now, [my] fellow believers, you have become children [of God as a result of believing God’s] promise to us, as Isaac [was born as a result of Abraham believing what God promised to him] [MET].
29 Ale jakož tehdáž ten podlé těla zplozený protivil se tomu, kterýž byl podlé Ducha, tak i nyní.
[Also, long ago Abraham’s son] Ishmael, the one who was conceived naturally, caused trouble for [Abraham’s son] Isaac, who [was conceived] supernaturally [MET]. Similarly, now [those who think that we must obey the laws that God gave Moses in order that God will save us are causing trouble for those who are trusting Abraham’s descendant, Christ].
30 Než co praví písmo? Vyvrz děvku i syna jejího; nebo nebudeť dědicem syn děvky s synem svobodné.
But these are [RHQ] the words in the Scriptures [PRS]: “The son of the [woman] who was not a slave will inherit [what his father has]. The female slave’s son will certainly not inherit those things. So send away from [this place] the female slave and her son [MET]!” [That means that you should certainly expel from your groups those who insist that we obey all the laws God gave Moses] [MET].
31 A tak, bratří, nejsmeť synové děvky, ale svobodné.
[My] fellow believers, [Hagar symbolizes the laws that God gave to Moses. But we are not those who must obey all the laws that God gave to Moses] [MET]. [So] we are not [the] female slave [Hagar’s spiritual] descendants [MET]. But [Sarah’s descendants are those who were born as a result of believing what God promised to Abraham. So we are] the [spiritual] descendants of [Sarah, the woman] who was not a slave [MET].
