Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and staid with him fifteen days;

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,

these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude.