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Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

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Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

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Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

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Which things have a secret sense because these women are the two agreements one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

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Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

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But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

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For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

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Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

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But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

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