Galatians 4:25 meaning and explanation

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:25, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is writing to Gentile believers in Galatia who were being pressured to keep the Jewish law. He uses Hagar, the slave woman who bore Abraham's son Ishmael, as an allegory.

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