Galatians 4:24

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Which thynges are spoken by an allegorie. For these are two testamentes: the one from the mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage, which is Agar.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἅτινά ἐστιν ἀλληγορούμενα: αὗται γάρ εἰσιν αἱ δύο διαθῆκαι· μία μὲν ἀπὸ ὄρους Σινᾶ, εἰς δουλείαν γεννῶσα, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἁγάρ.

Transliteration

Which things estin allēgoroumena: these for eisin the two diathēkai; one men apo orous Sina, into douleian gennōsa, which estin Hagar

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *allēgoroumena*: present passive participle, nominative, neuter, plural - being allegorized
• *eisin*: present indicative, 3rd person plural - they are
• *diathēkai*: nominative, feminine, plural - covenants/testaments
• *men*: particle - on the one hand
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *orous*: genitive, neuter, singular - mountain
• *Sina*: proper noun, genitive - Sinai
• *douleian*: accusative, feminine, singular - slavery/bondage
• *gennōsa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - bearing/giving birth to
• *Hagar*: proper noun - Hagar

Word Meanings

• *allēgoroumena*: being allegorized/spoken figuratively
• *diathēkai*: covenants/testaments/arrangements
• *orous*: mountain/hill
• *douleian*: slavery/bondage/servitude
• *gennōsa*: bearing/giving birth to/producing

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 All these thinges happened vnto them for ensamples: but they are written to put vs in remembraunce, whom the endes of the worlde are come vpon.
• Gen 21:9-9 : 9 Sara saw also the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian, whiche she had borne vnto Abraham, to be a mocker. 10 Wherfore she sayd vnto Abraham: cast out this bond woman, & her sonne: for the sonne of this bonde woman, shal not be heyre with my sonne Isahac. 11 And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne. 12 And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called. 13 Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.
• Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walke after the Lorde, he shall rose like a lion: when he shall rose, then the children of the west shall feare.
• Matt 13:35 : 35 That it myght be fulfylled, which was spoken by the prophete, that sayth: I wyll open my mouth in parables, I wyll speake foorth thynges which haue ben kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.
• Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And he toke bread, and when he had geue thankes, he brake it and gaue vnto the, saying, This is my body, which is geuen for you: This do in the remembraunce of me. 20 Lykewise also, when he had supped, he toke the cuppe, saying: This cuppe is the new testamet in my blood, which is shed for you.
• Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father.
• 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 And dyd all drynke of one maner of spirituall drynke. (And they dranke of that spirituall rocke that folowed them, which rocke was Christe.)
• Gen 25:12 : 12 These are the generations of Ismael Abrahams sonne, whiche Hagar the Egyptian Saraes handmayde bare vnto Abraham.
• Deut 33:2 : 2 The Lorde came from Sinai, and rose vp from Seir vnto them, and appeared from mount Pharan, & he came with ten thousande of saintes, and in his ryght hand a lawe of fire for them.
• Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then sayde I, Ah Lorde God, they say of me, Doth not he speake parables?
• Gal 3:15-21 : 15 Brethren, I speake after ye maner of men: Though it be but a mans testamet, yet if it be alowed, no man reiecteth it, or addeth therto. 16 To Abraham and his seede were the promises made. He sayth not to the seedes, as of many: but to thy seede, as of one, which is Christe. 17 This I say, that the lawe which began afterwarde, beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres, doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God, vnto Christe warde, to make the promise of none effect. 18 For yf the inheritauce be of the lawe, then not nowe of promise: But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise. 19 Wherfore then serueth the lawe? It was added because of transgressions, tyl the seede came to whom the promise was made: and it was ordayned by Angels in the hande of a mediatour. 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one, but God is one. 21 Is the lawe then against the promise of God? God forbyd. For yf there had ben a lawe geuen which coulde haue geuen life: then no doubt righteousnesse shoulde haue ben by the lawe.
• Gal 4:25 : 25 For Agar is the mount Sina in Arabia, and bordreth vpon the citie, which is nowe called Hierusalem, and is in bondage with her chyldren.
• Gal 5:1 : 1 Stande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free, and be not intangled agayne with ye yoke of bondage.
• Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better testament.
• Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But nowe hath he obteyned a more excellent office, by howe much also he is the mediatour of a better couenaunt, whiche was confirmed in better promises. 7 For yf that first couenaunt had ben founde fautlesse, then shoulde no place haue ben sought for the seconde. 8 For in rebukyng them, he saith: Beholde the dayes come, saith the Lord, and I wyll finishe vppon the house of Israel and vppon the house of Iuda a newe couenaunt: 9 Not lyke that that I made with their fathers, in the day when I toke them by the hande, to leade them out of the lande of Egypt: because they continued not in my couenaunt, and I regarded them not, saith the Lorde. 10 For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord, geuyng my lawes into their mynde, and in their heart I wyl write them, and I wyll be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people. 11 And they shall not teach euery man his neyghbour, and euery man his brother, saying, knowe the Lorde: for all shall knowe me, from the litle of them to the great of them. 12 For I wyll be mercyfull to their vnrighteousnes, and their sinnes and their iniquities wyll I thynke vpon no more. 13 In that he sayth a newe couenaunt he hath worne out the first: For that which is worne out and waxed olde, is redie to vanishe away.
• Heb 9:15-24 : 15 And for this cause is he the mediatour of the newe couenaunt, that through death, which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first couenaunt, they whiche are called myght receaue the promise of eternall inheritaunce. 16 For where as is a testament, there must also of necessitie be the death of him that maketh it. 17 For a testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no value, as long as he that maketh the testamet is alyue. 18 For which cause also, neither the firste testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moyses had spoken euery precept to all the people according to the lawe, takyng the blood of Calues and of Goates, with water & purple wooll and ysope, he sprynkled both the booke it selfe, and all the people, 20 Saying: This is the blood of the testament, whiche God hath enioyned vnto you. 21 And lykewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministerie. 22 And almost all thynges are by ye lawe pourged with blood, and without sheddyng of blood is no remission. 23 It is neede then that the paterne of heauenly thynges, be purified with such thynges: but the heauenly thynges the selues (be purified) with better sacrifices then are those. 24 For Christe is not entred into the holy places made with handes (which are) paternes of true thynges: but into heauen it selfe, nowe to appeare in the syght of God for vs.
• Heb 10:15-18 : 15 And the holy ghost also beareth vs recorde: For after that he tolde before, 16 This is the couenaunt that I wyll make vnto them after those dayes, (sayth the Lorde) geuyng my lawes in their heart, and in their myndes wyl I write them: 17 And their sinnes and iniquities wyll I remember no more. 18 And where remission of these thinges is there is no more offering for sinne.
• Heb 11:19 : 19 For he considered that God was able to rayse the dead vp agayne, fro whence also he receaued hym in a similitude of the resurrection.
• Heb 12:24 : 24 And to Iesus the mediatour of the newe couenaunt, and to the blood of sprinklyng, that speaketh better then that of Abel.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 The God of peace, that brought agayne from the dead our Lorde Iesus the great sheephearde of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting couenaunt,
• Gen 16:3-4 : 3 And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe. 4 And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceaued. And when she sawe that she had conceaued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes.
• Gen 16:8 : 8 And he said: Hagar Sarais mayde, whence camest thou? and whither wylt thou go? She sayde: I flee fro the face of my mistresse Sarai.
• Gen 16:15-16 : 15 And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name which Hagar bare vnto hym, Ismael. 16 And Abram was foure score and sixe yeres olde, when Hagar bare Ismael to hym.