Example of Hagar and Sarah

²¹Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? ²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons, eone by a slave woman and fone by a free woman. ²³But gthe son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while hthe son of the free woman was born through promise. ²⁴Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two icovenants. jOne is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. ²⁵Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;5 she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. ²⁶But kthe Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. ²⁷For it is written,

l“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.”

²⁸Now you,6 brothers, mlike Isaac, nare children of promise. ²⁹But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh opersecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, pso also it is now. ³⁰But what does the Scripture say? q“Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” ³¹So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but rof the free woman.

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