“These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.”
Galatians 4:24
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Connection with Hagar in Genesis 16
Paul uses Hagar as a picture of the flesh and the slave covenant, the son gained by human scheming. In Genesis 16 the same Hagar meets the God who sees her. Both readings are true, and they hold together.
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Hagar and Sarah — two covenants, one from Sinai bearing children for slavery
“Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.”
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