diff --git a/gal/04/24.md b/gal/04/24.md index 9f5bed9e90..14a49b40e6 100644 --- a/gal/04/24.md +++ b/gal/04/24.md @@ -1,24 +1,16 @@ -# Connecting Statement: - -Paul begins a story to illustrate a truth—that law and grace cannot exist together. - # These things may be interpreted as an allegory -"This story of the two sons is like a picture of what I will tell you now" +"This story of the women and their sons is like a picture of what I will tell you now" -# as an allegory +# an allegory -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. +An "allegory" is a story in which the people and things in it represent other things. -# women represent +# One of them is from Mount Sinai -"women are a picture of" - -# Mount Sinai - -"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/jit/figs-synecdoche]]) +"One of the covenants is from Mount Sinai" # she bears children into slavery -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/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]]) +"the children she gives birth to become are slaves"