गलाती 4
1 म यो तिमीहरूलाई भन्न चाहन्छुः उत्तराधिकारी जब सम्म बालक रहन्छ उ र कमारामा कुनै भिन्नता रहँदैन। यो सत्य हो यद्यपि उसले आफ्नो अधिकारमा रहेको प्रत्येक कुरो पाउँछ।
2 किन? किनभने बालक छउञ्जेल उसले आफ्नो अभिभावक र संरक्षकको आज्ञा मान्नुपर्छ। तर बालक जब आफ्ना बाबुले तोकिदिएको उमेरमा पुग्छ, ऊ मुक्त हुन्छ।
3 हामीसँग पनि त्यस्तै हो। एक समयमा हामी पनि बालक-बालिका जस्तै थियौं। हामी यस संसारका व्यर्थका व्यवस्थाका कमारा थियौं।
4 तर उचित समयमा परमेश्वरले आफ्नो पुत्र पठाउनु भयो। परमेश्वरका पुत्रले एउटी स्त्रीको कोखमा जन्म लिनुभयो। उहाँ पनि व्यवस्थाको अधिनमा बस्नु भयो।
5 परमेश्वरले यसो गर्नुको कारण व्यवस्थाका अधीनमा बस्नेहरूलाई मुक्ति दिनु थियो। हामीलाई आफ्ना बालक बनाउने परमेश्वरको इच्छा थियो।
6 तिमीहरू परमेश्वरका छोरा-छोरीहरू हौ। त्यसैकारण परमेश्वरले आफ्ना पुत्रको आत्मा तिमीहरूको हृदयमा हाली दिनु भयो त्यही आत्मा ले पुकार्छ, “बाबा, पिता।”
7 यसैकारण, अब तिमीहरू अघि जस्तो कमारा छैनौ। तिमीहरू परमेश्वरको पुत्र हौ। आफूले गरेको प्रतिज्ञा परमेश्वरले पूरा गर्नुहुनेछ किनभने तिमी उहाँको पुत्र हौ।
8 अघि-अघि तिमीहरूले परमेश्वरलाई चिनेका थिएनौ। तिमीहरू त्यस्ता देवताहरूको दास थियौ जो साँचो थिएनन्।
9 अब तिमीहरूले साँचो परमेश्वरलाई चिन्छौ। वास्तवमा परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई चिन्नुभयो। यसकारण अघि-अघि मानिलिएका ती कमजोर र निकम्मा व्यवस्थाहरू तिर फेरि किन र्फकन्छौ? फेरि त्यसकै कमारा बन्न चाहन्छौ?
10 तिमीहरूले अझै पनि व्यवस्थाको शिक्षा अनुसार खास दिन, महीना, ऋतु र र्वष मनाउँछौ।
11 तिमीहरूबारे मलाई डर लाग्छ कि तिमीहरूको लागि मैले जे जति परिश्रम गरें ती तब व्यर्थ त भएनन्?
12 दाज्यू-भाइ दिदी-बहिनीहरू, म पनि तिमीहरू जस्तै थिएँ, यसकारण दया गरी अब म जस्तै भइदेऊ। अघि तिमीहरू मेरो लागि खुबै राम्रा थियौ।
13 सम्झ त, म किन तिमीहरू भएकोमा पहिल्यै आएँ। किन कि मलाई सान्चो थिएन। तब मैले तिमीहरूमा सुसमाचार प्रचार गरें।
14 मेरो बिसञ्चो तिमीहरूलाई भार बन्यो। तर तिमीहरूले म प्रति घृणा दर्शाएनौ। तिमीहरूलाई छोडन मलाई वाध्य गरेनौ। तिमीहरूले मलाई यस्तो स्वागत गर्यो कि म परमेश्वरबाट आएको दूत नै हुँ। तिमीहरूले मलाई स्वयं येशू ख्रीष्टलाई झैं स्वीकार्यो।
15 त्यसबेला तिमीहरू खुबै प्रसन्न थियौ। कता हरायो त्यो खुशी अहिले? मलाई संझना छ हुन सक्ने सब किसिमको सहायता मलाई दियौ। यदि सम्भव हुन्थ्यो भने आफ्नो आँखा पनि निकालेर अनि मलाई दिने थियौ।
16 के अहिले म तिमीहरूको शत्रू भएको छु किनकि म सत्य बोल्छु?
17 ती मानिसहरू तिमीहरूमाथि खुबै चासो राख्दैछन्, तर तिनीहरूको मनसाय राम्रो छैन। तिमीहरूकोलागि त्यो राम्रो होइन। तिनीहरू चाहन्छन् कि तिमीहरू हाम्रो विरोधमा खड हौ। तिमीहरू चाहन्छन् कि तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई मात्र पछ्याउनु अनि अरूलाई होइन।
18 जब मानिसहरूले तिमीमा चासो लिन्छन भने त्यो सँधैं राम्रो छ यदि उद्देश्य राम्रो छ भने। त्यो संधै सत्य हो, म तिमीहरूसित हुँदा होस् कि नहुँदा होस्।
19 मेरा साना बालकहरू हो! जन्म दिंदा आमालाई जस्तो प्रसुति पीड हुन्छ, मलाई पनि त्यस्तै पीड अनुभव भइरहेछ। तिमीहरू ख्रीष्ट जस्तै नहोउञ्जेल म त्यही पीडा अनुभव गरिनै रहन्छु।
20 मलाई लाग्छ यदि म अहिले तिमीहरूसित हुँदो हुँ त म मेरो स्वरको लय नै बद्लाउने थिएँ किन कि म अन्योलमा परेको छु।
21 तिमीहरूमध्ये कतिजना मोशाको व्यवस्थाको अधीनमा रहन चाहन्छौ। भन त व्यवस्थाले के भन्छ तिमीहरू सुन्दैनौ?
22 धर्मशास्त्रले भन्छ, अब्राहामाका दुइ छोराहरू थिए। तिनीहरू मध्ये एउटाकी आमा कमारी थिई र अर्को चाँहिकी आमा मुक्त स्त्री थिई।
23 अब्राहामको कमारी पट्टीको छोरो सामान्य मानव रूपले जन्मेको थियो भने मुक्त स्त्री पट्टीको छोरो परमेश्वरले अब्राहामलाई दिएको प्रतिज्ञा अनुसार जन्मेको थियो।
24 यो सत्य कथाले हाम्रो अघि एउटा चित्र खड गर्छ। ती दुइ स्त्रीहरू परमेश्वर र मानिस बीचको करार स्वरूप हुन्। एउटा करार सीनै पर्वत को परमेश्वरले बनाएको व्यवस्था हो। यस संझौताको अधीन रहने मानिसहरू कमारा जस्ता हुन्। हागार नाउँकी आमा त्यही करार जस्तो हो।
25 हागार अरब देशमा सीनै पाहाड जस्तो हो र ऊ यरूशलेमको वर्तमान नगर यहूदीको प्रतिरूप हो। यो नगर एउटा कमारा हो र यसका मानिसहरू (यहूदी) कमाराहरू हुन्।
26 तर स्वर्गीय यरूशलेम एउटी मुक्त नारीको प्रतीक हो। यिनी हाम्री माता हुन्।
27 धर्मशास्त्रमा यो लेखिएको छः“खुशी होऊ हे बाँझी नारी! जसले कुनै बालकलाई जन्म दिनु सकिनौ, र्हषले कराऊ, जोडले चिच्याऊ कि प्रसव पीड तिमीले कहिल्यै अनुभव गरिनौ। त्यो नारी जसको पति छैन, उसैका धेरै सन्तान होलान्, पतिसितै रहने स्त्रीको बरू छोरा-छोरी नहोलान्।”
28 अब्राहामको एउटा छोरो सामान्य रूपले जन्मेको थियो। अर्को छोरो परमेश्वरको प्रतीज्ञा अनुसार आत्माको शक्तिले जन्मेको थियो। मेरा दाज्यु-भाइ, दिदी-बहिनीहरू!
29 तिमीहरू पनि ती इसहाक जस्तै प्रतीज्ञाका छोरा-छोरीहरू हौ। सामान्य रूपमा जन्मने छोराले अर्को छोरसँग दुर्व्यवहार गरेको थियो। आज पनि त्यस्तै भइरहेछ।
30 तर धर्मशास्त्रले के भन्छ? “कमारी र उसको छोरालाई निकाली देऊ! मुक्त स्त्रीको छोराले आफ्ना पिताका सबै थोक पाउनेछ। तर कमारीको छोराले केही पाउने छैन।”
31 यसैकारण मेरा दाज्यु -भाइ, दिदी-बहिनीहरू हो! हामी कमारीको छोरा-छोरी होइनौं। हामी स्वतंत्र स्त्रीका छोरा-छोरीहरू हौं।
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.
13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.