I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

What I mean is this. As long as an heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a servant, though he is lord of all the property;

would that I could be with you at this moment, and alter my tone, for I am at my wits' end about you!

Now this is an allegory. The women are two covenants. One comes from mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude; that is Hagar,

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

On all who will be guided by this rule, may peace and mercy rest, even upon the Israel of God.

Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.