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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(flight).
Abraham
’s concubine (Gen. 16:3).
mother
of
Ishmael
({vi 523-535}Gen. 21:9-21).
Type
of
law
and bondage ({vi 29156-29157}Gal. 4:24-25).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Sarah
’s Egyptian
handmaid
, given to
Abraham
, and the
mother
of
Ishmael
. When she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes
, and on being harshly dealt with, she absconded; but the angel of the
Lord
bade her return. He would multiply her seed exceedingly. She called His name “Thou
God
seest me.” Fifteen years later, at the feast made by Abraham on the occasion of the weaning of
Isaac
, Ishmael was seen to mock, and Sarah besought Abraham to cast out Hagar and her
son
; being instructed by God he did so. Still God protected her and her son, and saved him when she thought he was about to die ({vi 383-398}Gen. 16:1-16; {vi 523-534}Gen. 21:9-20; Gen. 25:12).
An
allegory
is drawn from the above history in {vi 29156-29163}Galatians 4:24-31. Hagar (
AGAR
) answers to the
covenant
of
law
and to
Jerusalem
then in bondage; and Sarah to the covenant of promise and to Jerusalem above, which is free. The conclusion as to the
believer
is, “so then,
brethren
, we are not the
children
of the bondwoman, but of the free.” The
Christian
is not under the law nor in the
flesh
; but is free, under
grace
. Being the seed of Abraham according to promise, that is, being “of Christ,” or “Christ’s,”
the gospel
and
new
covenant blessings have come to believers through Him, and they are reckoned as of God’s city, Jerusalem above, that is free. The
church
is of God’s
eternal
counsel, heavenly, and is never in
scripture
called a mother.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
ensnaring: the sojourner
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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