Galatians 4:25

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. Translate, 'For this word [ to (G3588)], Hagar, is (imports) mount Sinai in Arabia' (i:e., among the Arabians-in the Arabian tongue). Haurat, the traveler, says that to this day the Arabians call Sinai, 'Hadschar' - i:e., Hagar, 'stone.' Usually called Dschebel Musa. Hagar twice fled into Arabia (Genesis 16:1; Genesis 21:1): from her the mountain and city took its name, and the people were called Hagarenes. So A B Delta f. But 'Aleph (') C G read to gar Sina. 'for Sinai is in Arabia' (the home of Hagar's children), instead of Agar Sina. Then "the one" (covenant) is nominative to "answ...

25._For Agar is mount Sinai _(78) I shall not waste time in refuting the expositions of other writers; for Jerome’s conjecture, that Mount Sinai had two names, is trifling; and the disquisitions of Chrysostom about the agreement of the names are equally unworthy of notice. Sinai is called Hagar, (79) because it is a type or figure, as the Passover was Christ. The situation of the mountain is mentioned by way of contempt. It lies in Arabia, beyond the limits of the holy land, by which the eternal inheritance was prefigured. The wonder is, that in so familiar a matter they erred so egregiously. _And answers, on the other hand. _The Vulgate translates it, _is joined _(conjunctus est) to Jerusalem; and Erasmus makes it, _borders on _(confinis) Jerusalem; but I have adopted the phrase, _on the other hand, _(ex adverso,) in order to avoid obscurity. For t

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 the literal and historical sense of the words, the Spirit of God points out something further. Hagar and Sarah were apt emblems of the two different dispensations of the covenant. The heavenly Jerusalem, the true church from above, represented by Sarah, is in a state of freedom, and is the mother of all believers, who are born of the Holy Spirit. They were by regeneration and true faith, made a part of the true seed of Abraham, according to the promise made to him....

Verse 25. _FOR THIS AGAR IS MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA_] Το γαρ Αγαρ Σινα ορος εστιν εν τη Αραβια. This is the common reading; but it is read differently in some of the most respectable MSS., _versions_, and _fathers_; thus: το γαρ Σινα ορος εστιν εν τῃ Αραβια, _for this Sinai is a mountain of Arabia_; the word Αγαρ, _Agar_, being omitted. This reading is supported by CFG, some others, the _AEthiopic, Armenian, Vulgate_, and one copy of the _Itala_; by _Epiphanius, Damascenus, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, Augustine, Hilary,_ _Sedulius_, and _Bede_; and the word is sometimes, though not always, omitted by _Cyril_ and _Origen_, which proves that in their time there were doubts concerning the common reading. Of the word _Agar_ in this verse, which renders the passage very obscure and difficult, Professor _White_ says, _forsitan_ delendum, "probably it should be expunged." _Griesbach_ has

FOR THIS AGAR IS MOUNT SINAI - This Hagar well represents the Law given on Mount Sinai. No one can believe that Paul meant to say that Hagar was literally Mount Sinai. A great deal of perplexity has been felt in regard to this passage, and Bentley proposed to cancel it altogether as an interpolation. But there is no good authority for this. Several manuscripts and versions read it, “For this Sinai is a mountain in Arabia;” others, “to this Hagar Jerusalem answereth,” etc. Griesbach has placed these readings in the margin, and has marked them as not to be rejected as certainly false, but as worthy of a more attentive examination; as sustained by some plausible arguments, though not in the whole satisfactory. The word Hagar in Arabic is said to signify a rock; and it has been supposed that the name was appropriately given to Mount Sinai, because it was a pile of rocks, and that Paul had al...

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. Galatians 3:17; Galatians 5:16; Romans 15:8, according to the Received Text; 1 Corinthians 1:12. So τοῦτο δέ φημι, 1 Corinthians 7:29;...

FOR THIS AGAR IS MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA,.... The Arabic version, instead of Arabia, reads "Balca". The Syriac version makes Hagar to be a mountain, reading the words thus, "for Mount Hagar is Sinai, which is in Arabia": and some have been of opinion that Sinai was called Hagar by the Arabians. It is certain, that חגר, which may be pronounced Hagar, does signify in the Arabic language a stone or rock; and that one part of Arabia is called Arabia Petraea, from the rockiness of it; the metropolis of which was חגרת, or "Agara", and the inhabitants Agarenes; and Hagar was the name of the chief city of Bahrein, a province of Arabia r: and it may be observed, that when Hagar, with her son, was cast out, they dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, Genesis 21:21 which was near to Sinai, as appears from Numbers

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. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons._ Like little children, the Jewish believers were under the law. They observed this ceremony and that, just as children, even though they may be heirs to vast estates, yet, while they are in their minority, are under tutors and governors. But now in Christ we have come of age, and we have done with those school-books and that tutorship, and we have received the adoption of sons. Now, we have joy and peace in belie

AGAR Hagar....

GALATIANS 4:25 de. ~Aga.r Sina/ {C} As between de, and ga,r, the Committee preferred the former on the strength of superior attestation (î46 A B Dgr syrhmg, pal copsa, bo). After ga,r had replaced de, in some witnesses, the juxtaposition of ga.r ~Aga,r led to the accidental omission sometimes of ga,r and sometimes of ~Aga,r....