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And still Abram’s wife Sarai bore him no children. But she had an Egyptian maid-servant, called Agar; (Genesis 16, 1)
and she brought this Egyptian maid-servant of hers, Agar, and gave her to her husband as his mate, ten years after they had taken up their abode in the land of Chanaan. (Genesis 16, 3)
Whence comes Agar, he asked, and whither does she go, that was Sarai’s maid-servant? And she answered, It is from the threats of my mistress, Sarai, that I have fled. (Genesis 16, 8)
Agar, then, bore a son to Abram, and called him Ismael; (Genesis 16, 15)
and Sara found the son of the Egyptian woman, Agar, mocking her own son Isaac.✻ Whereupon she said to Abraham, (Genesis 21, 9)
But God had listened to the child’s crying, and now his angel called to Agar out of heaven. Agar, he said, what ails thee? Do not be afraid, God has listened to the crying of thy child, where he lies yonder. (Genesis 21, 17)
This was the lineage that came down from Ismael, Abraham’s son by Agar, the Egyptian, Sara’s waiting-woman; (Genesis 25, 12)
even the sons of Agar, so well schooled in earthly wisdom, even the merchants of Merrha and Theman, with all their store of legend, their skill and cunning laboriously gained, never found the track of true wisdom, or told us what its haunts were. (Baruch 3, 23)
All that is an allegory; the two women stand for the two dispensations. Agar stands for the old dispensation, which brings up its children to bondage, the dispensation which comes to us from mount Sinai. (Galatians 4, 24)
