Sons and Heirs

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.