Gal 4:22,23 What the Law Says

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What the Law Says

Gal 4:22,23

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. (Genesis 16-18,21)

There's alot of historic content in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament. Wouldn't it be nice to learn Biblical principles of application of such passages? From here to the end of chapter 4 we'll see how Paul develops applications from some historic sections of the Bible. And given verse 21, it seems these will be the kind of things he expected the Galatians to infer from the scriptures.

First he starts with historic facts. The two sons he's referring to here are, of course, Ishmael and Isaac. (The Koran actually gets this history backwards in many cases, putting Ishmael in the place of Isaac - A fact from which I'll later infer my own application) Isaac had a promises associate with him, of which Paul has already spoken of.