17 They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them.
18 And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,
20 even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you.
21 Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?
22 For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.
23 But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.