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Galatians 4:21 (WEB)
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

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§1972Article 1 · The Moral LawRead at vatican.va
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…

Origen, Against Celsus II.3Book II
“For it is written, that Abraham had two sons;” and so on, down to the place, “which things are an allegory,” etc.? And how have they abandoned the law of their fathers, who are ever speaking of the usages of their fathers in such words as these: “Or does not the law say these things also?” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21, 22, 24.
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Origen, Against Celsus IV.44Book IV
“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.”” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. iv. 21–24.
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Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–24.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 75
“For there, without distinction either of sex or of age, an omer was collected equally by each one.” — editor's note: [We may think this fanciful in argument: but this absorption of all Scripture, by primitive believers, into the analogy of faith, is not to be despised. See…
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Tertullian, On Monogamy Chapter 6
“What that digamy of Abraham portends, the same apostle fully teaches, the interpreter of each testament, just as he likewise lays it down that our “seed” is called in Isaac.” — editor's note: See Gal. iv. 21–31.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.3Book V
“…the promise of (Christ’s) holy church; by reason of which he adds in conclusion: “So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–26, 31.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XV.2Book XV
“And we, brethren, are not children of the bond woman, but of the free, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–31.
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