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Tell me, you who are so eager to have the law for your master, have you never read the law? (Galatians 4, 21)
You will find it written there, that Abraham had two sons; one had a slave for his mother, and one a free woman.✻ (Galatians 4, 22)
The child of the slave was born in the course of nature; the free woman’s, by the power of God’s promise. (Galatians 4, 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)
Mount Sinai, in Arabia, has the same meaning in the allegory as Jerusalem, the Jerusalem which exists here and now; an enslaved city, whose children are slaves.✻ (Galatians 4, 25)
So it is that we read, Rejoice, thou barren woman that hast never borne child, break out into song and cry aloud, thou that hast never known travail; the deserted one has more children than she whose husband is with her.✻ (Galatians 4, 27)
Now, as then, the son who was born in the course of nature persecutes the son whose birth is a spiritual birth. (Galatians 4, 29)
You see, then, brethren, that we are sons of the free woman, not of the slave; such is the freedom Christ has won for us. (Galatians 4, 31)
The word of Paul is your warrant for this; if you are for being circumcised, Christ is of no value to you at all. (Galatians 5, 2)
You who look to the law for your justification have cancelled your bond with Christ, you have forfeited grace. (Galatians 5, 4)
I am fully confident in the Lord that you will be of the same mind with me, leaving the disturbers of your peace, be they who they may, to answer for it. (Galatians 5, 10)
As for myself, brethren, if it is true that I preach the need of circumcision, why am I persecuted? If I did, the preaching of the cross would no longer give offence.✻ (Galatians 5, 11)