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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul begins a story to illustrate a truth—that law and grace cannot exist together.
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# These things may be interpreted as an allegory
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"This story of the two sons is like a picture of what I will tell you now"
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# as an allegory
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An "allegory" is a story in which the people and things in it represent other things. In Paul's allegory, the two women referred to in [Galatians 4:22](../04/22.md) represent two covenants.
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# women represent
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"women are a picture of"
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# Mount Sinai
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"Mount Sinai" here is a synecdoche for the law that Moses gave to the Israelites there. Alternate translation: "Mount Sinai, where Moses gave the law to Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# she gives birth to children who are slaves
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Paul treats the law as if it were a person. Alternate translation: "the people under this covenant are like slaves who have to obey the law" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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