24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. …
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. …
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and Ishmael. This he introduces in such a manner as was proper to strike and impress their minds, and to convince them of their great weakness in departing from the truth, and suffering themselves to be deprived…
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