What I mean is this. As long as an heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a servant, though he is lord of all the property;
but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.
but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.
Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.
he is under guardians and trustees till the time fixed by his father.
He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.