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Believers pause beside a shared table as a dark circular path recedes.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Galatians 4:8-11

Do not turn back

Children, Not Slaves · Galatians 4

Story guide: Paul warns against returning to what is not God and anxiously observes days and seasons; the circular shadows are metaphor, not a historical ritual or condemnation of Jewish people.

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8But at that time, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

9But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and poor elemental principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again?

10You are carefully observing days and months and seasons and years.

11I fear for you, that somehow I have labored over you in vain.

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