Galatians 4:25
For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons.
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In Context
26But that Jerusalem which is above is free; the same is our mother.
Cross References
Judges 5:5The mountains flowed away before the face of the Lord, and Sinai, before the face of the Lord God of Israel.
Psalms 68:17Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
Luke 13:34Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, and you stone those who are sent to you. Daily, I wanted to gather together your children, in the manner of a bird with her nest under her wings, but you were not willing!
Acts 1:11And they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall return in just the same way that you have seen him going up to heaven.”
Hebrews 12:18But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:22-31
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem… Read the whole commentary →