Galatians 4:24 (WEB)
These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
Catechism · 1
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…
Fathers and councils · 21
Origen
- 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.
Read the whole comment - 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.
Read the whole comment - 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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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Now the father of the human race is the Word of God, as Moses points out when he says, “Is not He thy father who hath obtained thee [by generation], and formed thee, and created thee?”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6, LXX. [Let us reflect that this effort to spiritualize this awful passage in the history of Lot is an innocent but unsuccessful attempt to…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.8Conference XIV
“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry, thou that travailest not, for many are the children of the desolate more than of her that hath an husband.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…I heard Ambrose, in his sermons to the people, oftentimes most diligently recommend this text as a rule,—“The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life;” whilst, drawing aside the mystic veil, he spiritually laid open that which, accepted according to the “letter,” seemed to teach perverse doctrines—teaching…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 6. The spiritual or allegorical meaning here referred to is one that Augustin constantly sought, as did many of the early Fathers, both Greek and…
Read the whole comment“Why then “Mount Sina, which gendereth unto bondage”? as saith the Apostle.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“…people, (for not monsters and prodigies were born, to lead the mind to some presignification,) nevertheless asserteth that they signify the two Testaments; and saith of that marvellous benefit which God bestowed upon His people Israel to rescue them out of the bondage in which they in Egypt were oppressed, and of…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–24
Read the whole comment“And hence some Latin translators, through unwillingness to employ a Greek word, where the apostle says, “Which things are an allegory,” have rendered it by a circumlocution—Which things signify one thing by another.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24
Read the whole comment“But that Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–26
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“Then in a little while the bond maid was cast out of the house with her son; and, according to the apostle, these two women signify the old and new covenants,—Sarah representing that of the Jerusalem which is above, that is, the city of God.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24–26.
Read the whole comment“…to God in the earth: but there are some things among them which are understood to pertain to both,—to the bond maid properly, to the free woman figuratively.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
Read the whole comment“Hence, that Jerusalem on earth was the shadow of the heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of us all, which is in heaven; and these are the apostle’s words.” — editor's note: Gen. xxi. 10; Gal. iv. 22–30.
Read the whole comment“And his being found as a servant, pertains also to that oldness that gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“…to the Jerusalem that is free, our eternal mother in heaven, the spiritual Sarah, who casteth out the bond maid and her children from the house of liberty.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—Yet the divine Apostle says that the narratives are types.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24et seqq.
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Jerome
“Hagar and Sarah, or Sinai and Zion, are typical of the two testaments.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–26.
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Tertullian
“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.
Read the whole comment“…them with drink was Christ; teaching the Galatians, moreover, that the two narratives of the sons of Abraham had an allegorical meaning in their course; and to the Ephesians giving an intimation that, when it was declared in the beginning that a man should leave his father and mother and become one flesh with…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22, 24.
Read the whole comment“…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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Cited together in The City of God XVI.31.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 112.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.9.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 112.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in Confessions VI.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.3.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.3 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Confessions VI.4 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 26.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 26.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 26.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 26.