Galatians:4:21-31
nsb@Galatians:4:21 @ Tell me, you that desire to be under the Law; do you not hear the Law?
nsb@Galatians:4:22 @ It is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman, and one by the freewoman.
nsb@Galatians:4:23 @ How is it that the son by the slave woman is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise?
nsb@Galatians:4:24 @ This contains an allegory. These women symbolize two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
nsb@Galatians:4:25 @ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She corresponds to the Jerusalem that now is. She is in bondage with her children.
nsb@Galatians:4:26 @ The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother.
nsb@Galatians:4:27 @ It is written, »Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth. Break forth and cry, you who do not labor; for there are more children of the desolate than of the one who has the husband.«
nsb@Galatians:4:28 @ Brothers, we are children who belong to the promise, the same as Isaac was.
nsb@Galatians:4:29 @ Just like then, the son who was conceived in a natural way according to the flesh persecuted the son conceived in a spiritual way. That is exactly what is happening now!
nsb@Galatians:4:30 @ What do the scriptures say? »Throw out the slave woman and her son. For the son of the slave woman must not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.« (Genesis strkjv@21:10)
nsb@Galatians:4:31 @ Brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.
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