“Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.”
Sarah tells Abraham to get rid of the slave woman and her son, for her son will never share in the inheritance with Isaac. Paul cites this in Galatians 4:30 as the appropriate theological response: the slave woman's son, born through human effort, cannot share the inheritance with the son of promise, born through faith and divine action. The two cannot coexist as co-heirs because they represent incompatible approaches. The application: living by law and living by grace cannot be harmonized. The flesh-born son and the promise-born son represent irreconcilable orientations.
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