1 Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all; 2 but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father. 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world; 4 but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law, 5 that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship. 6 But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God. 8 But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods; 9 but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage? 10 Ye observe days and months and times and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you. 12 Be as I [am], for I also [am] as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me. 13 But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first; 14 and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 15 What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me. 16 So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you? 17 They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them. 18 But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you — 19 my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you: 20 and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you. 21 Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman. 23 But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise. 24 Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children; 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband. 28 But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now. 30 But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.
Gálatas 4 Traducción de Darby
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- 1 Gálatas 4:23; Gálatas 4:29; Génesis 24:2–3
- 3 Colosenses 2:20; Colosenses 2:8; Gálatas 4:9; Gálatas 2:4; Gálatas 4:31–5:1
- 4 Isaías 7:14; Marcos 1:15; Romanos 1:3; Juan 1:14; Mateo 1:23
- 5 Hebreos 9:15; Efesios 1:5; 1 Pedro 1:18–20; Efesios 1:7; Gálatas 3:13
- 6 Romanos 8:15–17; Romanos 5:5; Romanos 8:9; 2 Corintios 3:17; Efesios 2:18
- 7 Gálatas 3:29–4:2; Romanos 8:16–17; Gálatas 3:26; 1 Corintios 3:21–23; Gálatas 4:5–6
- 8 1 Corintios 8:4; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:9; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:5; Efesios 2:11–12; 1 Corintios 10:19–20
- 9 1 Corintios 8:3; Gálatas 3:3; Romanos 8:3; 1 Juan 5:20; 2 Pedro 2:20
- 10 Colosenses 2:16–17; Romanos 14:5; Levítico 23:1–44; Números 28:1–29; Levítico 25:13
- 11 1 Tesalonicenses 3:5; Filipenses 2:16; 2 Juan 8; Gálatas 2:2; Gálatas 4:20
- 12 2 Corintios 2:5; 1 Reyes 22:4; 1 Corintios 9:20–23; Génesis 34:15; Gálatas 6:14
- 13 1 Corintios 2:3; 2 Corintios 12:7–10; 2 Corintios 11:30; 2 Corintios 10:10; Gálatas 1:6
- 14 Mateo 10:40; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:13; Hebreos 13:2; 2 Samuel 19:27; 2 Corintios 5:20
- 15 Romanos 5:2; Colosenses 4:13; 1 Juan 3:16–18; Romanos 9:3; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:13
- 16 Amós 5:10; Proverbios 9:8; Juan 8:45; Gálatas 5:7; Salmo 141:5
- 17 2 Corintios 11:13–15; Romanos 16:18; 2 Pedro 2:3; Mateo 23:15; 1 Corintios 4:8
- 18 Filipenses 2:12; Apocalipsis 3:19; Filipenses 1:27; Salmo 119:139; 1 Corintios 15:58
- 19 Efesios 4:13; Romanos 13:14; Romanos 8:29; Efesios 4:24; Colosenses 4:12
- 20 1 Tesalonicenses 2:17–18; 1 Corintios 4:19–21; 1 Tesalonicenses 3:9
- 21 Gálatas 3:10; Romanos 3:19; Mateo 22:29–32; Gálatas 3:23–24; Gálatas 4:9
- 22 Génesis 16:15; Génesis 21:10; Génesis 21:1–2; Génesis 16:2–4
- 23 Hebreos 11:11; Romanos 9:7–8; Génesis 21:1–2; Génesis 18:10–14; Gálatas 4:28–29
- 24 Génesis 21:9–13; Oseas 11:10; 1 Corintios 10:11; Hebreos 10:15–18; Hebreos 12:24
- 25 Mateo 23:37; Gálatas 1:17; Salmo 68:17; Salmo 68:8; Deuteronomio 33:2
- 26 Hebreos 12:22; Apocalipsis 21:2; Filipenses 3:20; Miqueas 4:1–2; Apocalipsis 3:12
- 27 Isaías 54:1–5; Salmo 113:9; Rut 4:14–16; 1 Samuel 2:5; 1 Timoteo 5:5
- 28 Gálatas 4:23; Romanos 9:8–9; Romanos 4:13–18; Gálatas 3:29; Hechos 3:25
- 29 Génesis 21:9; Romanos 8:13; Gálatas 5:11; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:14–15; Gálatas 4:23
- 30 Génesis 21:10–12; Juan 8:35; Romanos 8:15–17; Gálatas 3:22; Romanos 4:3
- 31 Gálatas 5:13; Gálatas 5:1; Juan 8:36; Juan 1:12–13; 1 Juan 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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)