“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.”
These things are being taken as figurative, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. — Paul's allegorical reading assigns the two women cosmic significance: Hagar represents the Sinai covenant ('diathēkē apo orous Sinai'), which produces 'teknon doulos' (children destined for slavery), the enslaved progeny of law-observance.
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