only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

(for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)

But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.