Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.”

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.