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However what does the scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
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Law and Grace Cannot Coexist
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse powerfully illustrates the incompatibility of legalism and grace. Quoting Genesis, Paul argues that just as Ishmael (representing the covenant of Law) could not share the inheritance with Isaac (representing the covenant of promise), so too those who rely on the Law cannot share in the inheritance of salvation that comes through faith in Christ alone. The two systems are mutually exclusive.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Nevertheless. But, (alla.)
What says the Scripture? What does the Scripture teach on the subject? What lesson doe…
Cast out (εκβαλε). Second aorist active imperative of εκβαλλω. Quotation from Ge 21:10 (Sarah to Abraham) and confirmed in 21:12 b…
19th Century
Anglican
What says the scripture?—In Genesis 21:10 the words are put into the mouth of Sarah, but they are afterwards endorsed by the divi…
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Second, the Christians at Galatia must recognize the incompatibility of manmade and God-made religion and respond by casting out the legalizers. Th…
16th Century
Protestant
But what says the Scripture? There was some consolation in knowing that we only share the lot of our father Isaac; but it is a still great…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Nevertheless, what says the Scripture ? &c.] This is a Talmudic form of citing Scriptures, and answers to (
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This history, having been explained, is now applied. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. If the pri…
13th Century
Catholic
Having revealed the mystery concerning the mothers, he now reveals it concerning the sons.
He first distinguishes between the sons, and seco…
