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 From Galatians 4:25:
+ For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.
+ The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise.
+ Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.
+ Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.  But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother.
+ For it is written:
+ “Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children;
+ break forth and shout, you who were not in labor;
+ for more numerous are the children of the deserted one
+ than of her who has a husband.”
+ Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.
+ But just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the spirit, it is the same now.
+ But what does the scripture say?
+ “Drive out the slave woman and her son!
+ For the son of the slave woman shall not share the inheritance with the son”
+ of the freeborn.
+ Therefore, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman but of the freeborn woman.