Galatians 4:22

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of the bondmaid, and one of the free.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

In Context

21Tell me, you who are willing to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

23But he who was of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh, and he who was of the free was by the promise.

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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 →

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