Galatians 4:1-4 What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance; ² but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father. ³ So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world. ⁴ But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,