Galatians · Geneva Bible (1599)
Galatians 4 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing from a seruant, though he be Lord of all,
1 TAMBIÉN digo: Entre tanto que el heredero es niño, en nada difiere del siervo, aunque es señor de todo;
2 But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.
2 Mas está debajo de tutores y curadores hasta el tiempo señalado por el padre.
3 Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.
3 Así también nosotros, cuando éramos niños, éramos siervos bajo los rudimentos del mundo.
4 But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,
4 Mas venido el cumplimiento del tiempo, Dios envió su Hijo, hecho de mujer, hecho súbdito á la ley,
5 That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.
5 Para que redimiese á los que estaban debajo de la ley, á fin de que recibiésemos la adopción de hijos.
6 And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.
6 Y por cuanto sois hijos, Dios envió el Espíritu de su Hijo en vuestros corazones, el cual clama: Abba, Padre.
7 Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.
7 Así que ya no eres más siervo, sino hijo; y si hijo, también heredero de Dios por Cristo.
8 But euen then, when ye knewe not God, yee did seruice vnto them, which by nature are not gods:
8 Antes, en otro tiempo, no conociendo á Dios, servíais á los que por naturaleza no son dioses:
9 But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?
9 Mas ahora, habiendo conocido á Dios, ó más bien, siendo conocidos de Dios, ¿cómo os volvéis de nuevo á los flacos y pobres rudimentos, en los cuales queréis volver á servir?
10 Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.
10 Guardáis los días, y los meses, y los tiempos, y los años.
11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.
11 Temo de vosotros, que no haya trabajado en vano en vosotros.
12 Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.
12 Hermanos, os ruego, sed como yo, porque yo soy como vosotros: ningún agravio me habéis hecho.
13 And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.
13 Que vosotros sabéis que por flaqueza de carne os anuncié el evangelio al principio:
14 And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye receiued me as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus.
14 Y no desechasteis ni menospreciasteis mi tentación que [estaba] en mi carne: antes me recibisteis como á un ángel de Dios, como á Cristo Jesús.
15 What was then your felicitie? for I beare you recorde, that if it had bene possible, ye would haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue giuen them vnto me.
15 ¿Dónde está pues vuestra bienaventuranza? porque yo os doy testimonio que si se pudiera [hacer], os hubierais sacado vuestros ojos para dármelos.
16 Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?
16 ¿Heme pues hecho vuestro enemigo, diciéndoos la verdad?
17 They are ielous ouer you amisse: yea, they woulde exclude you, that ye shoulde altogether loue them.
17 Tienen celos de vosotros, [pero] no bien: antes os quieren echar fuera para que vosotros los celéis á ellos.
18 But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you,
18 Bueno es ser celosos en bien siempre; y no solamente cuando estoy presente con vosotros.
19 My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.
19 Hijitos míos, que vuelvo otra vez á estar de parto de vosotros, hasta que Cristo sea formado en vosotros;
20 And I would I were with you nowe, that I might change my voyce: for I am in doubt of you.
20 Querría cierto estar ahora con vosotros, y mudar mi voz; porque estoy perplejo en cuanto á vosotros.
21 Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?
21 Decidme, los que queréis estar debajo de la ley, ¿no habéis oído la ley?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.
22 Porque escrito está que Abraham tuvo dos hijos; uno de la sierva, el otro de la libre.
23 But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promise.
23 Mas el de la sierva nació según la carne; pero el de la libre [nació] por la promesa.
24 By the which things another thing is meant: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.
24 Las cuales cosas son dichas por alegoría: porque estas [mujeres] son los dos pactos; el uno ciertamente del monte Sinaí, el cual engendró para servidumbre, que es Agar.
25 (For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.
25 Porque Agar ó Sinaí es un monte de Arabia, el cual es conjunto á la que ahora es Jerusalem, la cual sirve con sus hijos.
26 But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.
26 Mas la Jerusalem de arriba libre es; la cual es la madre de todos nosotros.
27 For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, and cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.
27 Porque está escrito: Alégrate, estéril, que no pares: prorrumpe y clama, la que no estás de parto; porque más son los hijos de la dejada, que de la que tiene marido.
28 Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promise.
28 Así que, hermanos, nosotros como Isaac somos hijos de la promesa.
29 But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.
29 Empero como entonces el que era engendrado según la carne, perseguía al que [había nacido] según el Espíritu, así también ahora.
30 But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.
30 Mas ¿qué dice la Escritura? Echa fuera á la sierva y á su hijo; porque no será heredero el hijo de la sierva con el hijo de la libre.
31 Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.
31 De manera, hermanos, que no somos hijos de la sierva, mas de la libre.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Galatians 4:23; Galatians 4:29; Genesis 24:2–3
- 3 Colossians 2:20; Colossians 2:8; Galatians 4:9; Galatians 2:4; Galatians 4:31–5:1
- 4 Isaiah 7:14; Mark 1:15; Romans 1:3; John 1:14; Matthew 1:23
- 5 Hebrews 9:15; Ephesians 1:5; 1 Peter 1:18–20; Ephesians 1:7; Galatians 3:13
- 6 Romans 8:15–17; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:9; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Ephesians 2:18
- 7 Galatians 3:29–4:2; Romans 8:16–17; Galatians 3:26; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23; Galatians 4:5–6
- 8 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; Ephesians 2:11–12; 1 Corinthians 10:19–20
- 9 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 3:3; Romans 8:3; 1 John 5:20; 2 Peter 2:20
- 10 Colossians 2:16–17; Romans 14:5; Leviticus 23:1–44; Numbers 28:1–29; Leviticus 25:13
- 11 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Philippians 2:16; 2 John 8; Galatians 2:2; Galatians 4:20
- 12 2 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Kings 22:4; 1 Corinthians 9:20–23; Genesis 34:15; Galatians 6:14
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10; 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 10:10; Galatians 1:6
- 14 Matthew 10:40; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 13:2; 2 Samuel 19:27; 2 Corinthians 5:20
- 15 Romans 5:2; Colossians 4:13; 1 John 3:16–18; Romans 9:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:13
- 16 Amos 5:10; Proverbs 9:8; John 8:45; Galatians 5:7; Psalm 141:5
- 17 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Romans 16:18; 2 Peter 2:3; Matthew 23:15; 1 Corinthians 4:8
- 18 Philippians 2:12; Revelation 3:19; Philippians 1:27; Psalm 119:139; 1 Corinthians 15:58
- 19 Ephesians 4:13; Romans 13:14; Romans 8:29; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 4:12
- 20 1 Thessalonians 2:17–18; 1 Corinthians 4:19–21; 1 Thessalonians 3:9
- 21 Galatians 3:10; Romans 3:19; Matthew 22:29–32; Galatians 3:23–24; Galatians 4:9
- 22 Genesis 16:15; Genesis 21:10; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 16:2–4
- 23 Hebrews 11:11; Romans 9:7–8; Genesis 21:1–2; Genesis 18:10–14; Galatians 4:28–29
- 24 Genesis 21:9–13; Hosea 11:10; 1 Corinthians 10:11; Hebrews 10:15–18; Hebrews 12:24
- 25 Matthew 23:37; Galatians 1:17; Psalm 68:17; Psalm 68:8; Deuteronomy 33:2
- 26 Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Philippians 3:20; Micah 4:1–2; Revelation 3:12
- 27 Isaiah 54:1–5; Psalm 113:9; Ruth 4:14–16; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:5
- 28 Galatians 4:23; Romans 9:8–9; Romans 4:13–18; Galatians 3:29; Acts 3:25
- 29 Genesis 21:9; Romans 8:13; Galatians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15; Galatians 4:23
- 30 Genesis 21:10–12; John 8:35; Romans 8:15–17; Galatians 3:22; Romans 4:3
- 31 Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:1; John 8:36; John 1:12–13; 1 John 3:1–2
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… in what sense [God] says, "That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;" and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband." For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: …
For she had "been the wife of one man," had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was "well-reported of for good works," had "brought up children," as often travailing in birth of them as she saw them swerving from Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For that He did come forth of the Virgin's flesh, He hath declared by speaking of "that which was conceived in her;" and Paul, by saying, "made of a woman;" whereby he stops the mouths of them that say, Christ came among us as through some conduit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For God sent forth His Son, says Paul, not made of a man and a woman, but made of a woman only, that is of a virgin.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… (di' ou) ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son," and "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by (dia) the will of God;" and again, "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." And "like as Christ was raised up from the dead by (dia) the glory of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)