[imardmd1]

The masterly, well-spoken AV translators put a lot more of the Pauline punch into
their words on this passage:

"Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them
which by nature are no gods. 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? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain"
(Gal 4:8-11 AV;).

(I am not very keen on these watered-down, dynamic-equivalency modern versions
based on the eclectic text. I would thinkthat the last sentenve has need of a hortatory
exclamation point, eh?)

[Elsie]

hortatory

Sounds like an uttering from a prostitute's lisping, petulant child; demanding to be told a tale before going to sleep!

(I had to look it up!)

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hor·ta·to·ry.

[ˈhôrdəˌtôrē]

ADJECTIVE

1.tending or aiming to exhort: