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NASB | Galatians 4:21 ¶ Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 4:21 ¶ Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]? |
Bible Question: Can someone please help me to understand the illustration made here? Hagar and Sarah are used to illustrate people under the law and people who are free in christ, but I don't totally get it. |
Bible Answer: Scripture ... Gal 4:22-26 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman. 23 But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise. 4:24 This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother. greatfullydead, God's day to you ... I side with you on this. On my search engine I entered, "Hagar and Sarah " "Galatians 4" ... and received 423 results. But, I have a problem with what most people say. However, I do not see Law after verse 21. I do see it in verses 4-5, where Christ was born under the Law, to redeem those who were under the Law. Was the Law given to Sarah's descendents or Hagar's? I believe they have a problem. I see Hagar as bondage (slavery) and flesh ... Sarah as freedom and promise. There is no place in this chapter that says we are no longer under the Law. Romans 6:14-15 only says "under Law" without the article "the". I see a very important point. Searcher |