15. what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;
16. so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
17. they are zealous for you--[yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
18. and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
19. my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
20. and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
21. Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
22. for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
23. but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;
24. which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;
25. for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,