4:3. So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. Under the elements, etc. . .That is, under the first rudiments of religion, in which the carnal Jews were trained up; or under those corporeal creatures, used in their manifold rites, sacrifices, and sacraments. 4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: 4:5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons. 4:6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father. 4:7. Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God. 4:8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods. 4:9. But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again? 4:10. You observe days and months and times, and years. You observe days, etc. . .He speaks not of the observation of the Lord's day, or other Christian festivals; but either of the superstitious observation of days lucky and unlucky; or else of the Jewish festivals, to the observance of which, certain Jewish teachers sought to induce the Galatians. 4:11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. 4:12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all. 4:13. And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh 4:14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 4:15. Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me. 4:16. Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? 4:17. They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them. 4:18. But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you. 4:19. My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you. 4:20. And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you. 4:21. Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law? 4:22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman. 4:23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise. 4:24. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is Agar. 4:25. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.