Add parallel Print Page Options

23 But the one of the slave woman has been born according to the basar, and the one of the free woman has been born through the havtachah (promise).

24 Now these things can be taken derech mashal (figuratively); for these are two beritot (covenants, see 3:17), one from Mount Sinai bearing banim for avdut (slavery, bondage): this is Hagar.

25 Now, Hagar is the Mount Sinai in Arabia; and corresponds to the Yerushalayim of the present, for she is in avdut with her banim.

Read full chapter