but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;
God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,
for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'