688 B
688 B
These things can be explained allegorically
"This story of the two sons is like a picture of what I'm going to tell you now"
Mount Sinai
"Mount Sinai, where Moses gave the law to Israel" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
who gives birth to bondage
"the people under this covenant are like slaves who have to obey the law" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor, rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
symbolizes
"is a picture of"
she is in bondage with her children
Hagar is a slave and her children are slaves with her. AT: "Jerusalem, like Hagar, is a slave, and her children are slaves with her" (see UDB).