Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Which things, х hatina (G3748)] - the which things; all which things; all the circumstances of the history.
Are an allegory - `are allegorical;' i:e., have another besides the literal meaning.
These are the two covenants - `these (women) are (i:e., mean. Omit "the," with A B C Delta G. But 'Aleph (') has it) two covenants.' As the bondage of the mother determined that of the child, the children of the free covenant of promise, answering to Sarah, are free; the children of the legal covenant of bondage (Hagar) are not so.
One from - i:e., taking its origin from mount Sinai. Therefore, he is treating of the moral law (Galatians 3:19) chiefly (Hebrews 12:18). Paul was familiar with Sinai in Arabia (Galatians 1:17), having gone to that region after his conversion. At the gloomy scene of the giving of the law he learned to appreciate, by contrast, the grace of the Gospel, and so to cast off all past legal dependencies.
Which gendereth - i:e., bringeth forth children (doomed) unto bondage, inasmuch as she was a slave herself (cf. Acts 3:25).