麥克謙一年通讀

Called from Slaves to Sons

¹Then I say, that the heire as long as hee is a childe, differeth nothing from a seruant, though he be Lord of all,

²But is vnder tutours and gouernours, vntil the time appointed of the Father.

³Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.

⁴But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

⁵That hee might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes.

⁶And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

⁷Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

Do Not Turn Back to Weak Elemental Principles

⁸But euen then, when ye knewe not God, yee did seruice vnto them, which by nature are not gods:

⁹But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?

¹⁰Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.

¹¹I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

Paul's Heartfelt Appeal to the Galatians

¹²Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

¹³And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

¹⁴And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye receiued me as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus.

¹⁵What was then your felicitie? for I beare you recorde, that if it had bene possible, ye would haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue giuen them vnto me.

¹⁶Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?

¹⁷They are ielous ouer you amisse: yea, they woulde exclude you, that ye shoulde altogether loue them.

¹⁸But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you,

¹⁹My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

²⁰And I would I were with you nowe, that I might change my voyce: for I am in doubt of you.

Hagar and Sarah, an Allegory of Two Covenants

²¹Tell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe?

²²For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

²³But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promise.

²⁴By the which things another thing is meant: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.

²⁵(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.

²⁶But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

²⁷For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, and cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

²⁸Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promise.

²⁹But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.

³⁰But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

³¹Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

Egypt Likened to a Cedar of Lebanon

¹And in the eleuenth yeere, in the third moneth, and in the first day of the moneth the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

²Sonne of man, speake vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou like in thy greatnesse?

³Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

⁴The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

⁵Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

⁶All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

⁷Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

⁹I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

The Cedar Cut Down and Brought to Sheol

¹⁰Therefore thus sayeth the Lord God, Because he is lift vp on high, and hath shot vp his toppe among the thicke boughes, and his heart is lift vp in his height,

¹¹I haue therefore deliuered him into the handes of the mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I haue cast him away for his wickednesse.

¹²And the strangers haue destroyed him, euen the terrible nations, and they haue left him vpon the mountaines, and in all the valleis his branches are fallen, and his boughes are broken by all the riuers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadowe, and haue forsaken him.

¹³Vpon his ruine shall all the foules of the heauen remaine, and all the beastes of the fielde shall be vpon his branches,

¹⁴So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when he went downe to hell, I caused them to mourne, and I couered the deepe for him, and I did restreine the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: I caused Lebanon to mourne for him, and all the trees of the fielde fainted.

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit, and all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: euen all that are nourished with waters, shall be comforted in the nether partes of the earth.

¹⁷They also went downe to hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sworde, and his arme, and they that dwelt vnder his shadowe in the middes of the heathen.

¹⁸To whom art thou thus like in glorie and in greatnesse among the trees of Eden? yet thou shalt be cast downe with the trees of Eden vnto the nether partes of the earth: thou shalt sleepe in the middes of the vncircumcised, with them that be slaine by the sworde: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, sayth the Lord God.

A Lament over the Defiled Temple

¹A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.

²The dead bodies of thy seruats haue they giuen to be meat vnto foules of ye heauen: and the flesh of thy Saintes vnto the beastes of the earth.

³Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.

⁴Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

⁵Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

⁶Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy Name.

⁷For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.

⁸Remember not against vs the former iniquities, but make haste and let thy tender mercies preuent vs: for we are in great miserie.

⁹Helpe vs, O God of our saluation, for the glorie of thy Name, and deliuer vs, and be mercifull vnto our sinnes for thy Names sake.

¹⁰Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy seruants that is shed.

¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to thy mightie arme preserue the children of death,

¹²And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.

¹³So wee thy people, and sheepe of thy pasture shall praise thee for euer: and from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise.