Only they wanted us to remember the poor; the very thing that I was eager to do.

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born by the power of the Spirit, so it is today.