Verse 24
24. Which things Not the Greek pronoun α , which, but ατινα , which sort of things. The Old Testament histories of this kind. Christian verity underlies the whole old dispensation.
Are an allegory A literal history with a spiritual subsense. The Greek word αλληγορουμενα , may signify either are spoken allegorically, or, are allegorized. The latter is the meaning here; implying that the literal history is by Christian truth thus spiritualized. This spiritualizing arises from the very relation of the new dispensation to the old; the latter infusing a new and grander import into the former.
These Hagar and Sarah.
Are That is, represent. Their position in the history assigns them that typism.
Two covenants That of law and works, and that of gospel and faith; yet the latter really underlying the former through the whole old history. See note on Romans 9:5-13.
From the mount Sinai For the decalogue is THE LAW; all the rest of the Old Testament, the ritual, the history, and the prophecy, being but adjuncts to give that law power and effect.
Gendereth to bondage As Hagar bore children to bondage, so does the Sinaitic covenant produce sons under circumcisional bondage to the heavy ritual. Under this bondage the Galatians are perversely ambitious to place themselves.
Which is Corresponds to.
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