to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

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

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.

But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son" of the free woman.