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Galatians 4:23 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.Galatians 4:23 · King James Version
Galatians 4:23 in context
21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bondwomanpaidiskēa young girl, damsel, a maid-servant, a young female slave, a maid servant who has charge…G3814 →
- freewomaneleutherosfreeborn, in a civil sense, one who is not a slave, of one who ceases to be a slave…G1658 →
- afterkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
- borngennaōof men who fathered children, to be born, to be begotten, of women giving birth to…G1080 →
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In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and Ishmael.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-31