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1 Now I say, [That] the heir, as [chronos] long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
 - CHRONOS - TIME
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the time of waiting was over, God sent his Son, made from a woman, made under the law,
 - CHRONOS - TIME
5 To redeem those that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Therefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then a heir of God through Christ.
 - PROVISION - FINANCIAL
8 Though at that time, when you did not know not God, you were slaves to those who by their nature were not gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God, how can you turn again to those things that are weak and lacking, which you want to be in bondage to again?
10 You observe days, and months, and [kairos] times, and years.
 - KAIROS - TIME
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brothers, I appeal to you, become just like me; because I am also like you: you have not offended me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the beginning.
14 And my time of testing [peirazo] which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
 - PEIRAZO - TEST
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
18 But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a female slave, the other by a female non-slave.
23 But the one who was born from the slave was born under the influence of the flesh; but the one from the non-slave came by promise.
24 These things are an allegory or live illustration: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar.
Paul was an excellent teacher and he used a tool that all good teachers use - taking Old Testament Scripture and explaining it using an allegory
- ALLEGORY

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, [you] barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband.
28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman will not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brothers, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.