17. They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
18. But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
19. My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,
20. yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.
21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22. For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
23. Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.
24. Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
25. Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.
26. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.