¹我说，那承受产业的，虽然是全部产业的主人，但在孩童的时期，却和奴仆没有分别。

¹And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant — being lord of all,

²他是在监护人和管家之下，直到父亲预先指定的时候。

²but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

³我们也是这样，作孩童的时候，被世俗的言论所奴役；

³so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

⁴但到了时机成熟，　神就差遣他的儿子，由女人所生，而且生在律法之下，

⁴and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

⁵要把律法之下的人救赎出来，好让我们得着嗣子的名分。

⁵that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

⁶你们既然是儿子，　神就差遣他儿子的灵进入我们心里，呼叫“阿爸、父！”

⁶and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!`

⁷这样，你不再是奴仆，而是儿子；既然是儿子，就靠着　神承受产业了。

⁷so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

⁸保罗为加拉太信徒担忧从前你们不认识　神的时候，是给那些本来不是　神的作奴仆；

⁸But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

⁹现在你们既然认识　神，更可以说是　神所认识的，怎么还回到那些软弱贫乏的言论，情愿再作它们的奴仆呢？

⁹and now, having known God — and rather being known by God — how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

¹⁰你们严守日子、月份、节期、年份；

¹⁰days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

¹¹我为你们担心，恐怕我在你们身上的劳苦是白费了。

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

¹²弟兄们，我请求你们要像我一样，因为我也像你们一样。你们并没有亏负过我。

¹²Become as I [am] — because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

¹³你们知道，我第一次传福音给你们，是因为身体有病。

¹³and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

¹⁴虽然我的身体对你们是个试炼，你们却没有轻看，也没有厌弃，反而接纳我，好像　神的天使，也好像基督耶稣。

¹⁴and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me — as Christ Jesus;

¹⁵现在，你们的欢乐在哪里呢？我可以为你们作证，那时如果可能，你们甚至愿意把你们的眼睛剜出来给我哩！

¹⁵what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

¹⁶现在我把真理告诉你们，反而成了你们的仇敌吗？

¹⁶so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

¹⁷那些人热心待你们，并不是出于好意，而是想你们和我疏远，好使你们热心待他们。

¹⁷they are zealous for you — [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

¹⁸常常在善事上热心，总是好的；只是不要我在你们那里的时候才是这样。

¹⁸and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

¹⁹我的孩子们，为了你们我再受生产的痛苦，直到基督在你们里面成形。

¹⁹my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

²⁰我恨不得现今就在你们那里，改变我的语气，因为我为你们十分困扰。

²⁰and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

²¹两个妇人的寓意你们这愿意在律法之下的人哪！请告诉我，你们没有听过律法吗？

²¹Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

²²经上记着说，亚伯拉罕有两个儿子，一个出于婢女，一个出于自由的妇人。

²²for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

²³但那出于婢女的，是按着肉体生的；那出于自由的妇人的，是凭着应许生的。

²³but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;

²⁴这都是寓意的说法：那两个妇人就是两个约，一个是出于西奈山，生子作奴仆，这是夏甲。

²⁴which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

²⁵这夏甲是指着阿拉伯的西奈山，相当于现在的耶路撒冷，她和她的儿女都是作奴仆的。

²⁵for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,

²⁶那在上面的耶路撒冷是自由的，她是我们的母亲，

²⁶and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

²⁷因为经上记着说：“不能生育、没有生养的啊，你要欢欣！没有受过生产痛苦的啊，你要呼喊，大声呼叫！因为弃妇比有夫之妇有更多儿子。”

²⁷for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate — more than of her having the husband.`

²⁸可是，弟兄们，你们是按着应许作儿女的，好像以撒一样。

²⁸And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

²⁹不过，当时那按着肉体生的，迫害那按着圣灵生的，现在也是这样。

²⁹but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

³⁰然而经上怎样说呢？”把婢女和她的儿子赶出去，因为婢女的儿子，绝对不可以和自由的妇人的儿子一同承受产业。”

³⁰but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;`

³¹所以，弟兄们，我们不是婢女的儿女，而是自由的妇人的儿女了。

³¹then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant`s children, but the free-woman`s.