to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.

But I say that, so long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a slave, though he is lord of all;

So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, also an heir through God.

Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

(for the word Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem; for she is in bondage with her children.

for it has been written, "Rejoice, O barren, that bear not! Break forth and cry, you that travail not! because many are the children of the desolate, rather than of her who has the husband."

But what says the Scripture? "Cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall in nowise inherit with the son of the free-woman."