“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.
Galatians 4:3 - The Scriptures 2009 So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we [Jewish Christians] also, when we were minors, were kept like slaves under [the rules of the Hebrew ritual and subject to] the elementary teachings of a system of external observations and regulations. American Standard Version (1901) So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: Common English Bible In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world’s system. Catholic Public Domain Version So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. |
“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.
So יהושע said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him, “If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones,
Now then, why do you try Elohim by putting a yoke on the neck of the taught ones which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”
For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face.
But as for the false brothers, sneakingly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our freedom which we have in Messiah יהושע in order to enslave us,
Why, then, the Torah? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained through messengers in the hand of a mediator.
but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the father.
This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,
for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman.
But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones.
But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters, to which you wish to be enslaved again?
If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to dogmas:
See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.
For indeed, although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first elements of the Words of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.
who has become, not according to the torah of fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,