Galatians 4:25 (WEB)
For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
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 · 14
Augustine of Hippo
“…not concerning a person pertaining to Egypt, or to Jericho, or to Babylon, or still to Jerusalem itself, the earthly, which is in bondage with her children; but concerning a citizen of that city which is above and free, our mother, eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25, 26
Read the whole comment“But they who there understood the figure, even then were heirs of the New Covenant; for “Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our everlasting mother in heaven.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25, 26.
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“For the Old Testament, from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, profiteth nothing, unless because it bears witness to the New Testament.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25.
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“…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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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He saw your destruction, he beheld your downfall, he bewailed Jerusalem which then was; for that which now is shall not be bewailed; for that Jerusalem crucified the Christ, but that which now is worships Him.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25.
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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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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“…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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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.31.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.