Galatians 4:24 NASB
This is allegorically speaking: for these women are two covenants, one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.
What does Paul say that this Mount Sinai covenant is bearing?
Does that fit everything Paul has told us so far in Galatians about the Law--that those who follow it are in bondage?
Was there a purpose for this bondage? (Galatians 3:23-24)
The NASB version says they were "kept in custody under the law." The KJV uses "kept under the law." If you look up "kept under" in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, you find that "kept under" corresponds to #G5432, meaning "to be a watcher in advance, to mount guard as a sentinel, to hem in, protect, keep as with a garrison."
Read Galatians 4:1-7. What do we learn about this slavery? Is there hope for those who are in this slavery?
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