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Chapter 4 Now I say, that the heir,
as long as he is a child, differeth

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nothing from a servant, though he be lord
of all, but is under tutors and governors

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until the time appointed of the father.

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Even so we, when we were children,
were in bondage under the elements of the

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world.

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But when the fullness of the time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a

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woman, made under the law, to redeem them
that were under the law, that we might

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receive the adoption of sons.

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And because ye are sons, God hath sent
forth the Spirit of His Son into your

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hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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Wherefore thou art no more a servant,
but a son, and if a son, then an heir of

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God through Christ.

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How be it then, when ye knew not God,
ye did service unto them which by nature

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are no gods?

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But now, after that ye have known God,
or rather are known of God, how turn ye

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again to the weak and beggarly elements?

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Whereunto ye desire again to be in
bondage?

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Ye observe days, and months, and times,
and years.

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I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed
upon you labor in vain.

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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am,
for I am as ye are.

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Ye have not injured me at all.

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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh
I preached the gospel unto you at the

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first.

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And my temptation, which was in my flesh,
ye despised not, nor rejected,

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but received me as an angel of God,
even as Christ Jesus.

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Where is then the blessedness ye speak of?

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For I bear you record, that if it had been
possible, ye would have plucked out your

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own eyes, and have given them to me.

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Am I therefore become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?

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They zealously affect you, but not well.

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Yea, they would exclude you, that ye might
affect them.

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But it is good to be zealously affected
always in a good thing, and not only when

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I am present with you.

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My little children, of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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I desire to be present with you now,
and to change my voice, for I stand in

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doubt of you.

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Tell me, ye that desire to be under the
law, do ye not hear the law?

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For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by

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a free woman.

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But he who was of the bondwoman was born
after the flesh, but he of the free woman

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was by promise.

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Which things are an allegory?

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For these are the two covenants,
the one from the Mount Sinai, which

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gendereth to bondage.

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Which is Agar?

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For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is

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and is in bondage with her children.

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But Jerusalem, which is above,
is free, which is the mother of us all.

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For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren,
that bearest not, break forth and cry,

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thou that travailest not.

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For the desolate hath many more children
than she which hath an husband.

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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise.

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But as then, he that was born after the
flesh persecuted him that was born after

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the Spirit.

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Even so it is now.

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Nevertheless, what saith the Scripture?

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Cast out the bondwoman and her son,
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be

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heir with the son of the free woman.

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So then, brethren, we are not children of
the bondwoman, but of the free.