Galatians 4
1 What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;
But Y seie, as long tyme as the eir is a litil child, he dyuersith no thing fro a seruaunt, whanne he is lord of alle thingis;
2 but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.
but he is vndur keperis and tutoris, in to the tyme determyned of the fadir.
3 So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.
So we, whanne we weren litle children, we serueden vndur the elementis of the world.
4 But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
But aftir that the fulfilling of tyme cam, God sente his sone,
5 to redeem from captivity those under law, in order that we might receive our sonship.
maad of a womman, maad vndur the lawe, that he schulde ayenbie hem that weren vndur the lawe, that we schulden vnderfonge the adopcioun of sones.
6 And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"
And for ye ben Goddis sones, God sente his spirit in to youre hertis, criynge, Abba, fadir.
7 So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God’s grace.
And so ther is not now a seruaunt, but a sone; and if he is a sone, he is an eir bi God.
8 But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.
But thanne ye vnknowynge God, serueden to hem that in kynde weren not goddis.
9 Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?
But now whanne ye han knowe God, and ben knowun of God, hou ben ye turned eftsoone to the febil and nedi elementis, to the whiche ye wolen eft serue?
10 You are scrupulous, are you, in observing "days" and "months" and "seasons" and "years"?
Ye taken kepe to daies, and monethis, and tymes, and yeris.
11 I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.
But Y drede you, lest without cause Y haue trauelid among you.
12 Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;
Be ye as Y, for Y am as ye. Britheren, Y biseche you, ye han hurt me no thing.
13 on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit,
But ye knowen, that bi infirmyte of fleisch Y haue prechid to you now bifore;
14 and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.
and ye dispiseden not, nether forsoken youre temptacioun in my fleisch, but ye resseyueden me as an aungel of God, as `Crist Jhesu.
15 Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)
Where thanne is youre blessyng? For Y bere you witnesse, that if it myyte haue be don. ye wolden haue put out youre iyen, and haue yyuen hem to me.
16 Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?
Am Y thanne maad an enemye to you, seiynge to you the sothe?
17 These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.
Thei louen not you wel, but thei wolen exclude you, that ye suen hem.
18 It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.
But sue ye the good euermore in good, and not oneli whanne Y am present with you.
19 O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!
My smale children, whiche Y bere eftsoones, til that Crist be fourmed in you,
20 How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
and Y wolde now be at you, and chaunge my vois, for Y am confoundid among you.
21 Tell me, you who wish to be subject to the Law, why do you not listen to the Law?
Seie to me, ye that wolen be vndir the lawe, `han ye not red the lawe?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman;
For it is writun, that Abraham hadde two sones, oon of a seruaunt, and oon of a fre womman.
23 but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.
But he that was of the seruaunt, was borun after the flesh; but he that was of the fre womman, by a biheeste.
24 Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage
The whiche thingis ben seid bi an othir vndirstonding. For these ben two testamentis; oon in the hille of Synai, gendringe in to seruage, which is Agar.
25 (for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)
For Syna is an hille that is in Arabie, which hille is ioyned to it that is now Jerusalem, and seruith with hir children.
26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
But that Jerusalem that is aboue, is fre, whiche is oure modir.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.
For it is writun, Be glad, thou bareyn, that berist not; breke out and crye, that bringist forth no children; for many sones ben of hir that is left of hir hosebonde, more than of hir that hath an hosebonde.
28 But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;
For, britheren, we ben sones of biheeste aftir Isaac;
29 but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.
but now as this that was borun after the fleisch pursuede him that was aftir the spirit, so now.
30 But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave’s son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.
But what seith the scripture? Caste out the seruaunt and hir sone, for the sone of the seruaunt schal not be eir with the sone of the fre wijf.
31 So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;
And so, britheren, we ben not sones of the seruaunt, but of the fre wijf, bi which fredom Crist hath maad vs fre.
