Salvation History: Difference between revisions
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman. | |||
The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise. | |||
Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. | |||
Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children. But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother. | |||
For it is written: | |||
“Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children; | |||
break forth and shout, you who were not in labor; | |||
for more numerous are the children of the deserted one | |||
than of her who has a husband.” | |||
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise. | |||
But just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the spirit, it is the same now. | |||
But what does the scripture say? | |||
“Drive out the slave woman and her son! | |||
For the son of the slave woman shall not share the inheritance with the son” | |||
of the freeborn. | |||
Therefore, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman but of the freeborn woman. | |||