Galatians 4:22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
KJV
γέγραπται γὰρ ὅτι Ἀβραὰμ δύο υἱοὺς ἔσχεν, ἕνα ἐκ τῆς παιδίσκης καὶ ἕνα ἐκ τῆς ἐλευθέρας.
Greek NT
Scriptum est enim : Quoniam Abraham duos filios habuit : unum de ancilla, et unum de libera.
Vulgate
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
ASV
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
δύο
duo
adjective · 132×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
παιδίσκη
paidiske
noun · 13×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
Ἀβραάμ
abraam
noun · 73×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐλεύθερος
eleutheros
adjective · 23×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Gen 16:15 · paraphrase"And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael."Genesis: Abraham had two sons — Paul's allegory of Hagar and Sarah
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. They thought that He, thus speaking, did so with a view to the abrogation of the ancient institutions. This suspicion therefore He heals; nor here only does He so, but elsewhere also again. Thus, since they accounted Him no less than an adversary of God, from this sort of reason, namely, His not keeping the sabbath; He, to heal such their suspicion, there also again sets for…
Chapter 3.—Of the Three-Fold Meaning of the Prophecies, Which are to Be Referred Now to the Earthly, Now to the Heavenly Jerusalem, and Now Again to Both. Wherefore just as that divine oracle to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the other prophetic signs or sayings which are given in the earlier sacred writings, so also the other prophecies from this time of the kings pertain …
The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.
Cross-references
- Gal 3:29 — And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
- Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- Gen 16:15 — And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
- Gen 21:2 — For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Gen 21:9 — And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Gen 21:10 — Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
- Isa 41:8 — But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
- Matt 3:9 — And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Rom 9:8 — That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.