The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha VULA
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1 dico autem quanto tempore heres parvulus est nihil differt servo cum sit dominus omnium
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What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
2 sed sub tutoribus est et actoribus usque ad praefinitum tempus a patre
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The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
3 ita et nos cum essemus parvuli sub elementis mundi eramus servientes
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So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
4 at ubi venit plenitudo temporis misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere factum sub lege
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But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 ut eos qui sub lege erant redimeret ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus
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to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
6 quoniam autem estis filii misit Deus Spiritum Filii sui in corda nostra clamantem Abba Pater
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Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
7 itaque iam non es servus sed filius quod si filius et heres per Deum
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So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
8 sed tunc quidem ignorantes Deum his qui natura non sunt dii serviebatis
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Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
9 nunc autem cum cognoveritis Deum immo cogniti sitis a Deo quomodo convertimini iterum ad infirma et egena elementa quibus denuo servire vultis
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But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces ? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
10 dies observatis et menses et tempora et annos
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You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 timeo vos ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis
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I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
12 estote sicut et ego quia et ego sicut vos fratres obsecro vos nihil me laesistis
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I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.
13 scitis autem quia per infirmitatem carnis evangelizavi vobis iam pridem
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As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
14 et temptationem vestram in carne mea non sprevistis neque respuistis sed sicut angelum Dei excepistis me sicut Christum Iesum
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and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 ubi est ergo beatitudo vestra testimonium enim perhibeo vobis quia si fieri posset oculos vestros eruissetis et dedissetis mihi
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Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 ergo inimicus vobis factus sum verum dicens vobis
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 aemulantur vos non bene sed excludere vos volunt ut illos aemulemini
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Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them.
18 bonum autem aemulamini in bono semper et non tantum cum praesens sum apud vos
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It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.
19 filioli mei quos iterum parturio donec formetur Christus in vobis
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My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 vellem autem esse apud vos modo et mutare vocem meam quoniam confundor in vobis
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how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
21 dicite mihi qui sub lege vultis esse legem non legistis
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Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 scriptum est enim quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit unum de ancilla et unum de libera
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 sed qui de ancilla secundum carnem natus est qui autem de libera per repromissionem
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
24 quae sunt per allegoriam dicta haec enim sunt duo testamenta unum quidem a monte Sina in servitutem generans quae est Agar
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These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
25 Sina enim mons est in Arabia qui coniunctus est ei quae nunc est Hierusalem et servit cum filiis eius
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Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 illa autem quae sursum est Hierusalem libera est quae est mater nostra
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But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
27 scriptum est enim laetare sterilis quae non paris erumpe et exclama quae non parturis quia multi filii desertae magis quam eius quae habet virum
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For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 nos autem fratres secundum Isaac promissionis filii sumus
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Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 sed quomodo tunc qui secundum carnem natus fuerat persequebatur eum qui secundum spiritum ita et nunc
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At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 sed quid dicit scriptura eice ancillam et filium eius non enim heres erit filius ancillae cum filio liberae
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But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 itaque fratres non sumus ancillae filii sed liberae qua libertate nos Christus liberavit
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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