“For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.”
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. — Paul begins his allegory ('allegoreuō' — interpret allegorically, though the term is used retrospectively) of Hagar and Sarah, establishing two births within Abraham's line, one from slavery and one from freedom.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:22
“For it is written, Genesis 15:16 that Abraham had two sons, one by the hand-maid and the other by the freewoman.” He returns again to Abraham, not in the way of repetition, but, inasmuch as the Patriarch's fame was great among the Jews, to show that the types had their origin from thence, and that present events were pictured aforetime in him. Having previously shown that the Galatians were sons of Abraham, now, in that the Patriarch's sons were not of equal dignity, one…
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