Galatians 4 Polygamy non-example

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Galatians 4:21-31; 5:1
-- The Choice

Instructions

The following column format is for a different purpose than what is seen elsewhere on this web site for parallel comparisons. In this case, rather than comparing two separate sources, the text flows from top to bottom, left to right, both columns coming from the Galations 4 reading it sequentially. The purpose of arranging the words in columns is to indicate whether the topic is relating to bondage (left-hand) or freedom (right-hand). Statements that refer to neither are centered in the middle.

Quoting Galatians 4:21-31;5:1

( R.E. H a g a r )
The Law & Bondage

( R.E. S a r a h )
Redeemed & Free

	.
Tell me,
ye that desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?

For it is written,

that Abraham had two sons,

- the one by a bondmaid,	- the other by a freewoman.
But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh;	but he of the freewoman
	was by promise.

Which things are an allegory:

for these are the two covenants;

- the one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar.
For this Agar
is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
	But Jerusalem which is above is free,
	which is the mother of us all.
	For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
	Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
	are the children of promise.

But as then

he that was born after the flesh
persecuted	him that was born after the Spirit,

even so it is now.

Nevertheless what saith the scripture?

Cast out the bondwoman and her son:
for the son of the bondwoman	shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

So then, brethren,

we are not children of the bondwoman,	but of the free.
	STAND fast therefore in the liberty
	wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again
with the yoke of bondage.