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;

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:

for it is written, "rejoice thou barren, that bearest not; break out into loud acclamations, thou that hast not the travels of childbirth, for more are the children of the desolate, than of her that hath an husband."

but what saith the scripture? "cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free-woman."