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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he who was of the bondwoman,.... Ishmael, who was begotten and born of Hagar, was born after the flesh; after the common order and course of nature, through the copulation of two persons, the one able to procreate, and the other fit for the conception of children; and was typical of the Jews, the natural descendants of Abraham, who, as such,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he of the freewoman was by promise. Born when Abraham and his wife were past age, — born by the power of God’s Spirit, according to promise.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he of the freewoman was by promise. In the power of God, born after both father and mother had ceased to be capable of becoming parents, born in the power of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which things are an allegory,.... Or "are allegorized": so Sarah and Hagar were allegorized by Philo the Jew (p), before they were by the apostle. Sarah he makes to signify virtue, and Hagar the whole circle of arts and sciences, which are, or should be, an handmaid to virtue; but these things respecting Hagar and Sarah, the bondwoman and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar. It is the strength of the flesh which leads to bondage.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar. Those that are under the law are the children, therefore, of the bondwoman: they are born slaves.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia,.... The Arabic version, instead of Arabia, reads "Balca". The Syriac version makes Hagar to be a mountain, reading the words thus, "for Mount Hagar is Sinai, which is in Arabia": and some have been of opinion that Sinai was called Hagar by the Arabians. It is certain, that חגר, which may be pronounced Hagar,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this Hgar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. That is, of all of us who believe in Christ Jesus. We are born of the free-woman, not of the bondwoman; not born of the covenant of works, and in the strength of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. It is old Judaism coming from Sinai, “This do, and thou shalt live,” and all the children that are born under it are children of nature, and they are not the children of promise.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Jerusalem which is above,.... This Sarah was a type and figure of; she answered to, and agreed with this; which is to be understood, not of the church triumphant in heaven, but of the Gospel church state under the administration of the new covenant; and that, not as in the latter day glory, when the new Jerusalem shall descend from God out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. This is Sarah, and they that believe are the Isaac-children, the children of holy laughter, born according to the power of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For it is written,.... Isaiah 44:1, which is cited to prove, that the heavenly Jerusalem, or Gospel church state, is the mother of us all, and has brought forth, and still will bring forth, many souls to Christ, even many more than were under the legal dispensation by the Jewish church, though the Lord was an husband to them, Jeremiah 31:32. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. If we are God’s children, it is not by our own strength, or by the strength of the flesh, in any measure or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband, Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "you, brethren"; and so one of Stephens's copies. As the two women, Hagar and Sarah, might be, and are allegorized; so likewise their respective offspring. Isaac signified, and was a type and figure of Abraham's spiritual seed, whether Jews or Gentiles, under the Gospel dispensation:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as then,.... In the times of Abraham, when Hagar and Sarah, the types of the two dispensations of the covenant, and Ishmael and Isaac, the figures of the two different seeds, the natural and spiritual seed of Abraham, legalists and true believers, were living: he that was born after the flesh; which was Ishmael, who was a type, or an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Make a compromise, and be friends? Let Isaac and Ishmael live in the same house, and lie in the same bed? No!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless, what saith the Scripture?.... This is a Talmudic form of citing Scriptures, and answers to מאי קראה, "what says the Scriptures (e)?" the passage referred to is Genesis 21:10 and which are the words of Sarah to Abraham; but inasmuch as she spake them under divine inspiration, and they were approved of and confirmed by God, as appears...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. This exposition consisted of readings from Gal_4:12-31; Gal_5:1-4; Gal_5:19-26; Gal_6:1-11.