Lettera ai Galati (غلاطية) 4

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 وانما اقول ما دام الوارث قاصرا لا يفرق شيئا عن العبد مع كونه صاحب الجميع.	1 What I am saying is this: an heir, during the time while he is stil under age, is no different from a slave,even though he is the owner of al the property;
2 بل هو تحت اوصياء ووكلاء الى الوقت المؤجل من ابيه.	2 he is under the control of guardians and administrators until the time fixed by his father.
3 هكذا نحن ايضا لما كنا قاصرين كنا مستعبدين تحت اركان العالم.	3 So too with us, as long as we were stil under age, we were enslaved to the elemental principles of thisworld;
4 ولكن لما جاء ملء الزمان ارسل الله ابنه مولودا من امرأة مولودا تحت الناموس	4 but when the completion of the time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of theLaw,
5 ليفتدي الذين تحت الناموس لننال التبني.	5 to redeem the subjects of the Law, so that we could receive adoption as sons.
6 ثم بما انكم ابناء ارسل الله روح ابنه الى قلوبكم صارخا يا ابا الآب.	6 As you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying, 'Abba, Father';
7 اذا لست بعد عبدا بل ابنا وان كنت ابنا فوارث للّه بالمسيح	7 and so you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, by God's own act.
8 لكن حينئذ اذ كنتم لا تعرفون الله استعبدتم للذين ليسوا بالطبيعة آلهة.	8 But formerly when you did not know God, you were kept in slavery to things which are not really gods atal ,
9 واما الآن اذ عرفتم الله بل بالحري عرفتم من الله فكيف ترجعون ايضا الى الاركان الضعيفة الفقيرة التي تريدون ان تستعبدوا لها من جديد.	9 whereas now that you have come to recognise God -- or rather, be recognised by God -- how can younow turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt elements whose slaves you now want to be al overagain?
10 أتحفظون اياما وشهورا واوقاتا وسنين.	10 You are keeping special days, and months, and seasons and years-
11 اخاف عليكم ان اكون قد تعبت فيكم عبثا	11 I am beginning to be afraid that I may, after al , have wasted my efforts on you.
12 اتضرع اليكم ايها الاخوة كونوا كما انا لاني انا ايضا كما انتم لم تظلموني شيئا.	12 I urge you, brothers,-be like me, as I have become like you. You have never been unfair to me;
13 ولكنكم تعلمون اني بضعف الجسد بشرتكم في الاول.	13 indeed you remember that it was an il ness that first gave me the opportunity to preach the gospel toyou,
14 وتجربتي التي في جسدي لم تزدروا بها ولا كرهتموها بل كملاك من الله قبلتموني كالمسيح يسوع.	14 but though my il ness was a trial to you, you did not show any distaste or revulsion; instead, youwelcomed me as a messenger of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 فماذا كان اذا تطويبكم. لاني اشهد لكم انه لو امكن لقلعتم عيونكم واعطيتموني.	15 What has happened to the utter contentment you had then? For I can testify to you that you wouldhave plucked your eyes out, were that possible, and given them to me.
16 أفقد صرت اذا عدوا لكم لاني اصدق لكم.	16 Then have I turned into your enemy simply by being truthful with you?
17 يغارون لكم ليس حسنا بل يريدون ان يصدوكم لكي تغاروا لهم.	17 Their devotion to you has no praiseworthy motive; they simply want to cut you off from me, so that youmay centre your devotion on them.
18 حسنة هي الغيرة في الحسنى كل حين وليس حين حضوري عندكم فقط.	18 Devotion to a praiseworthy cause is praiseworthy at any time, not only when I am there with you.
19 يا اولادي الذين اتمخض بكم ايضا الى ان يتصور المسيح فيكم.	19 My children, I am going through the pain of giving birth to you al over again, until Christ is formed inyou;
20 ولكني كنت اريد ان اكون حاضرا عندكم الآن واغيّر صوتي لاني متحيّر فيكم	20 and how I wish I could be there with you at this moment and find the right way of talking to you: I amquite at a loss with you.
21 قولوا لي انتم الذين تريدون ان تكونوا تحت الناموس ألستم تسمعون الناموس.	21 Tell me then, you are so eager to be subject to the Law, have you listened to what the Law says?
22 فانه مكتوب انه كان لابراهيم ابنان واحد من الجارية والآخر من الحرة.	22 Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave girl and one by the freewoman.
23 لكن الذي من الجارية ولد حسب الجسد واما الذي من الحرة فبالموعد.	23 The son of the slave girl came to be born in the way of human nature; but the son of the freewomancame to be born through a promise.
24 وكل ذلك رمز لان هاتين هما العهدان احداهما من جبل سيناء الوالد للعبودية الذي هو هاجر.	24 There is an al egory here: these women stand for the two covenants. The one given on Mount Sinai --that is Hagar, whose children are born into slavery;
25 لان هاجر جبل سيناء في العربية. ولكنه يقابل اورشليم الحاضرة فانها مستعبدة مع بنيها.	25 now Sinai is a mountain in Arabia and represents Jerusalem in its present state, for she is in slaverytogether with her children.
26 واما اورشليم العليا التي هي امنا جميعا فهي حرة.	26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and that is the one that is our mother;
27 لانه مكتوب افرحي ايتها العاقر التي لم تلد. اهتفي واصرخي ايتها التي لم تتمخض فان اولاد الموحشة اكثر من التي لها زوج.	27 as scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren woman who has borne no children! Break into shouts ofjoy, you who were never in labour. For the sons of the forsaken one are more in number than the sons of thewedded wife.
28 واما نحن ايها الاخوة فنظير اسحق اولاد الموعد.	28 Now you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;
29 ولكن كما كان حينئذ الذي ولد حسب الجسد يضطهد الذي حسب الروح هكذا الآن ايضا.	29 just as at that time, the child born in the way of human nature persecuted the child born through theSpirit, so now.
30 لكن ماذا يقول الكتاب. اطرد الجارية وابنها لانه لا يرث ابن الجارية مع ابن الحرة.	30 But what is it that scripture says? Drive away that slave girl and her son; the slave girl's son is not toshare the inheritance with the son of the freewoman.
31 اذا ايها الاخوة لسنا اولاد جارية بل اولاد الحرة	31 So, brothers, we are the children not of the slave girl but of the freewoman.