that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children.

neither returned to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me: but went my ways into Arabia, and came again unto Damascus.

Then after three years, I returned to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Then fourteen years thereafter, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.

But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.