and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a servant woman, and the other by a free woman.

for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear, break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.