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Galatians 4:24
which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Verse 24. _WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY_] They are to be understood _spiritually_; more being intended in the account than meets the eye. _Allegory_, from αλλος, _another_, and αγορεω, or αγοπευω, _...
WHICH THINGS - The different accounts of Ishmael and Isaac. ARE AN ALLEGORY - May be regarded allegorically, or as illustrating great principles in regard to the condition of slaves and freemen; and m...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
GALATIANS 4:21 TO GALATIANS 5:1. The new thing he tries is an allegorising spiritualising application of an OT story. Slave-born Ishmael mocked (Genesis 21:10 *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the sl...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands written in it that Abraham had two sons; one was the son of the slave girl and...
AN ALLEGORY. Literally allegorized. Greek. _allegereo_. Only here. Compare: 1 Corinthians 10:11 THESE. Supply the Ellipsis by "two women are, i.e. represent. Figure of speech _Metaphor_, App-6. Compar...
_which things are an allegory_ Rather, -Now all these things may be regarded as an allegory". The facts are historical, but they are types (1 Corinthians 10:11) calculated and intended to teach great...
ΔΎΟ ΔΙΑΘΗ͂ΚΑΙ אcABCD etc. αἱ is prefixed in Text. Rec. with א*. 24. ἍΤΙΝΆ, “now this class of things,” Colossians 2:23 note. ἘΣΤΙΝ�[133], “are written with another meaning.” For the thought cf. 1 Cor...
21–5:1. _Another appeal, based upon the principles underlying the history of Hagar and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac. Christ set us free; stand fast therefore in this freedom_ (Galatians 4:21) You wis...
ΆΛΛΗΓΟΡΟΎΜΕΝΑ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΆΛΛΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G238) использовать аллегорию, иносказание. Павел приводит в пример историческое событие. Об интерпретации аллегорий во времена Павла _см._ BE, 126ff; E...
DISCOURSE: 2075 SARAH AND HAGAR TYPES Galatians 4:22. _It is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman. But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the...
WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY:— The original may be rendered, _Which things are allegorical,_ or _have been allegorized._ It seems to have been in compliance with the disposition of the Jewish Christia...
Sarah and Hagar Galatians 4:21-31 TEXT 4:21-24 (21) Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and on...
_VERSE 24. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY._ VERSES 24, 25. For these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arab...
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. WHICH THINGS, [ hatina (G3748)] - the which things; all whic...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
ARE (RV 'contain') AN ALLEGORY] i.e. are spoken allegorically. An allegory is a narrative where the literal sense 'half reveals and half conceals' a spiritual meaning. The best example of allegory in...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
Paul wanted to explain again the difference between the law and freedom. He compared it to Hagar and Sarah. He used the principle rather than all the details. Ishmael’s sons and their families lived...
(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further proof that freedom is the essential character of the...
WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY. — Literally, _Which things are allegorised_ — _i.e.,_ spoken in double sense, — “Where more is meant than meets the ear.” The allegorical sense does not exclude the lite...
CHAPTER 19 THE STORY OF HAGAR. Galatians 4:21 - Galatians 5:1 THE Apostle wishes that he could "change his voice" (Galatians 4:20). Indeed he has changed it more than once. "Any one who looks closel...
PATRIARCHAL HISTORY IS EMPLOYED TO ILLUSTRATE THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, WHO ARE THE PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM, BY JEWS WHO ARE HIS SEED AFTER THE FLESH. HAGAR AND HER SON, SARAH AND HER SON, FURNI...
ἅτινά ἐστιν ἀλληγορούμενα. No doubt is thrown on the historical truth of the patriarchal history by classing the story of Ishmael with allegories: though an additional value is thereby claimed for it...
“CHILDREN OF PROMISE” Galatians 4:21 In this allegory of Sarah and Hagar, it is important to notice that Paul is not dealing with the principle of evil within our hearts, but with the attempt to min...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
Which things are an allegory: for (z) these are the (a) two covenants; the one from the mount (b) Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (z) These represent and symbolize. (a) They are ca...
(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) В¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
24._These are the two covenants_. I have thought it better to adopt this translation, in order not to lose sight of the beauty of the comparison; for Paul compares the two διαθὢκαι, to two mothers, an...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY,.... Or "are allegorized": so Sarah and Hagar were allegorized by Philo the Jew p, before they were by the apostle. Sarah he makes to signify virtue, and Hagar the whole c...
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. Ver. 24. _Which things are an allegory_] That is, they signify...
_Which things are an allegory_ That is, a figurative speech, wherein one thing is expressed, and another intended. Or, as Macknight explains the expression more at large: “Properly, an _allegory_ is,...
WHICH THINGS; those which relate to these two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. AN ALLEGORY; aptly represent the bondage of those who are under the ceremonial law and seek justification from it, and the freed...
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
TELL ME, YOU WHO 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 bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. Notice Abraham's age: 75 - P...
COVENANTS: Or, testaments ANSWERETH…WHICH NOW IS: Or, is in the same rank with...
21-27 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the histories of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an allegory, wherein, beside t...
OLBGrk; WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY: that is called _an allegory, _ when one thing is learned out of another, or something is mystically signified and to be understood further than is expressed. The...
Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Now the father of the human race is the Word of God, as Moses points out when he says, "Is not He thy father who hath obtained thee [by generation], and formed thee,...
Galatians 4:24 things G3748 are G2076 (G5748) symbolic G238 (G5746) For G1063 these G3778 are G1526 ...
‘Which things contain an allegory. For these two women are two covenants. One from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the...
A LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW (GALATIANS 4:21). Paul now turns to the Old Testament for examples of what he is trying to say....
Galatians 4:24. WHICH THINGS ARE ALLEGORIZED, allegorically expounded, have an allegorical signification. The story of Hagar and Sarah has another (namely, a figurative, typical) meaning, besides (not...
The Apostle resumes his argument for the superiority of the gospel over the law, and illustrates the difference of the two by an allegorical interpretation of the history of Sarah and Hagar, and their...
WHICH THINGS CONTAIN AN ALLEGORY (ατινα εστιν αλληγορουμενα). Literally, "Which things are allegorized" (periphrastic present passive indicative of αλληγορεω). Late word (Strabo, Plutarch, Philo, Jo...
AGAR Hagar....
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
A FIGURE. "These two women symbolize the two covenants by which men and women become the church and people of God. The one came from Mount Sinai, making Abraham's descendants by Isaac the only _visibl...
_Which things are an allegory: for they are the two covenants._ WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY I. The two women. 1. Sarah, the type of the covenant of grace, was the original wife of Abraham. This co...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:21 Paul again emphasizes the difference between being a free child of God and being a slave to the law, sin, and false gods. Abraham’s son Ishmael—technically the firstbo...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:24. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY.—Under the things spoken of—the two sons, with their contrast of parentage and position—there lies a spiritual meaning. G...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 10:4; Ezekiel 20:49; Galatians 3:15;...
Are an allegory [ε σ τ ι ν α λ λ η γ ο ρ ο υ μ ε ν α]. N. T. o. Lit. are allegorised. From allo another, ajgoreuein to speak. Hence, things which are so spoken as to give a different meaning from that...
Which things are an allegory — An allegory is a figurative speech, wherein one thing is expressed, and another intended. For those two sons are types of the two covenants. One covenant is that given f...
Here the apostle makes an allegorical and spiritual application of the foregoing history of Sarah and Hagar, of Isaac and Ishmael; and the mystery he tells us is this, "The two mothers, Sarah and Haga...