But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that the Good News might continue with you in its integrity.

Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act.

This is Hagar; for the name Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage together with her children.

But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."