Galatians 4:27

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband."[143]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Barren, giv'n birth:[117]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

And the Phrygians style him, he says, "very fruitful" likewise, "because," says he, "more numerous are the children of the desolate one, than those of her which hath an husband; "[111]

2 Clement "Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for she that is desolate hath many more children than she that hath an husband."[16]

2 Clement "Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for she that is desolate hath many more children than she that hath an husband."[10]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

might be among the Gentiles; and, on account of it, "the children of the desolate one," who had not been instructed either in the law or the prophets, "might be more than of her who has the husband,"[169]