Galatians 4:27 meaning and explanation
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
Galatians 4:27, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul quotes Isaiah 54:1, where the barren woman is Zion, desolate in exile yet promised children beyond number. He applies it to the Jerusalem above, the free mother of believers, contrasting her with the present Jerusalem bound to the law.
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