NOW I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be adoniy of all;
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father.
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage by the elements of the world:
But when the fulness of the time was come, Elohiym sent forth his Son, who was born of a woman, and subject to the Law,
To redeem them את that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, Elohiym has sent forth the Ruach of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of Elohiym through Mashiach.
Howbeit then, when ye knew not Elohiym, ye did service unto them את which by nature are not Elohiym.
But now, do ye not know Elohiym, or rather are ye not known by Elohiym, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements? Do ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Besorah unto you at the first.
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of Elohiym, even as Mashiach Yahusha.
Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the Truth?
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Mashiach be formed in you,
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear (and obey) the Law?
For it is written, that Avraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Ciynai, which genders to bondage, which is Ha'ger.
For this Ha'ger is Mount Ciynai in Arav, and answers to the present Yerushalayim, for she is in bondage among her children.
But Yerushalayim which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a man.
Now we, brethren, as Yitschaq was, are the children of promise.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Ruach, even so it is now.
Nevertheless what says the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.