“For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.”
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. — the geographical and temporal extension of the allegory: Hagar/Sinai correspond to Jerusalem as it now exists ('he nyn Ierousalēm'), which is in enslavement ('douleia'), presumably through its commitment to Torah and national hope that excludes Gentiles.
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