Galatians, 4

1. But I say that, during the time an heir is a child, he is no different from a servant, even though he is the owner of everything.

1. Hoæu reæi: sve dok je baštinik maloljetan, ništa se ne razlikuje od roba premda je gospodar svega:

2. For he is under tutors and caretakers, until the time which was predetermined by the father.

2. pod skrbnicima je i upraviteljima sve do dana koji je odredio otac.

3. So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.

3. Tako i mi: dok bijasmo maloljetni, robovasmo poèelima svijeta.

4. But when the fullness of time arrived, God sent his Son, formed from a woman, formed under the law,

4. A kada doðe punina vremena, odasla Bog Sina svoga: od žene bi roðen, Zakonu podložan

5. so that he might redeem those who were under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption of sons.

5. da podložnike Zakona otkupi te primimo posinstvo.

6. Therefore, because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying out: “Abba, Father.”

6. A buduæi da ste sinovi, odasla Bog u srca vaša Duha Sina svoga koji klièe: "Abba! Oèe!"

7. And so now he is not a servant, but a son. But if he is a son, then he is also an heir, through God.

7. Tako više nisi rob nego sin; ako pak sin, onda i baštinik po Bogu.

8. But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.

8. Onda dok još niste poznavali Boga, služili ste bogovima koji po naravi to nisu.

9. But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?

9. Ali sada kad ste spoznali Boga - zapravo, kad je Bog spoznao vas - kako se sad opet vraæate k nemoænim i bijednim poèelima i opet im, ponovno, hoæete robovati?

10. You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.

10. Dane pomno opslužujete, i mjesece, i vremena, i godine!

11. I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.

11. Sve se bojim za vas! Da se možda nisam uzalud trudio oko vas!

12. Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.

12. Postanite, braæo, molim vas, kao ja jer i ja postadoh kao vi. Nièim me niste povrijedili.

13. But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh.

13. Znate: prvi sam vam put za bolesti navješæivao evanðelje.

14. You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.

14. Svoju kušnju, moje tijelo, niste ni prezreli ni odbacili, nego ste me primili kao anðela Božjega, kao Krista Isusa.

15. Therefore, where is your happiness? For I offer to you testimony that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would have given them to me.

15. Gdje je sada ono vaše blaženstvo? Svjedoèim vam doista: kad bi bilo moguæe, oèi biste svoje bili iskopali i dali mi ih.

16. So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

16. Tako? Postadoh li vam neprijateljem propovijedajuæi vam istinu?

17. They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.

17. Oni revnuju za vas, ne èasno, nego - odvojiti vas hoæe da onda vi za njih revnujete.

18. But be imitators of what is good, always in a good way, and not only when I am present with you.

18. Dobro je da se za vas revnuje u dobru uvijek, a ne samo kad sam nazoèan kod vas,

19. My little sons, I am giving birth to you again, until Christ is formed in you.

19. djeèice moja, koju ponovno u trudovima raðam dok se Krist ne oblikuje u vama.

20. And I would willingly be present with you, even now. But I would alter my voice: for I am ashamed of you.

20. Htio bih sada biti kod vas, pa i jezik promijeniti, jer ne znam što bih s vama.

21. Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?

21. Recite mi vi, koji želite biti pod Zakonom, zar ne èujete Zakona?

22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a servant woman, and one by a free woman.

22. Ta pisano je da je Abraham imao dva sina, jednoga od ropkinje i jednoga od slobodne.

23. And he who was of the servant was born according to the flesh. But he who was of the free woman was born by the promise.

23. Ali onaj od ropkinje roðen je po tijelu, a onaj od slobodne snagom obeæanja.

24. These things are said through an allegory. For these represent the two testaments. Certainly the one, on Mount Sinai, gives birth unto servitude, which is Hagar.

24. To je slika. Doista, te žene dva su Saveza: jedan s brda Sinaja, koji raða za ropstvo - to je Hagara.

25. For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.

25. Jer Hagara znaèi brdo Sinaj u Arabiji i odgovara sadašnjem Jeruzalemu jer robuje zajedno sa svojom djecom.

26. But that Jerusalem which is above is free; the same is our mother.

26. Onaj pak Jeruzalem gore slobodan je; on je majka naša.

27. For it was written: “Rejoice, O barren one, though you do not conceive. Burst forth and cry out, though you do not give birth. For many are the children of the desolate, even more than of her who has a husband.”

27. Pisano je doista: Klièi, nerotkinjo, koja ne raðaš, podvikuj od radosti, ti što ne znaš za trudove! Jer osamljena više djece ima negoli udana.

28. Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are sons of the promise.

28. Vi ste, braæo, kao Izak, djeca obeæanja.

29. But just as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

29. I kao što je onda onaj po tijelu roðeni progonio onoga po duhu roðenoga, tako je i sada.

30. And what does Scripture say? “Cast out the woman servant and her son. For the son of a servant women shall not be an heir with the son of a free woman.”

30. Nego, što veli Pismo? Otjeraj sluškinju i sina njezina jer sin sluškinje ne smije biti baštinik sa sinom slobodne.

31. And so, brothers, we are not the sons of the servant woman, but rather of the free woman. And this is the freedom with which Christ has set us free.

31. Zato, braæo, nismo djeca ropkinje nego slobodne.