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Hagar and Sarah: Two Covenants Allegory

Galatians 4:21-31

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Chapter 4
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the Law—do you not hear the Law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the slave woman and one from the free woman. 23 But the one from the slave-girl was born according to the flesh, but the one from the free woman through promise. 24 which things are allegorized; for these are two covenants, one indeed from Mount Sinai, giving birth to slavery, which is Hagar, 25 Now Hagar is Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is enslaved with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother. 27 For it is written: "Rejoice, barren one, you who do not give birth. Break out and cry aloud, you who are not in labor. For the children of the desolate one are many more than those of the one who has a husband." 28 But you, brothers, are children of promise like Isaac. 29 But just as then the one born according to the flesh persecuted the one according to the Spirit, so also now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall by no means inherit with the son of the free woman." 31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.