For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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Gill's Exposition
But he who was of the bondwoman,.... Ishmael, who was begotten and born of Hagar,
was born after the flesh; after the common order and course of nature, through the copulation of two persons, the…
Barnes' Notes
For it is written - Gen. 16; 21. Abraham had two sons - Ishmael and Isaac. Abraham subsequently had several sons by Keturah after the death of Sarah; Gen 26:1-6. But the two sons by Hagar and Sarah…
Adam Clarke
For it is written - Viz. in Gen 16:15; Gen 22:1, etc., that Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac; the one; Ishmael, by a bond maid, Hagar; the other, Isaac, by a free woman, Sarah.
In these verses the apostle illustrates the difference between believers who rested in Christ only and those judaizers who trusted in the law, by a comparison taken from the story of Isaac and…
Cambridge Bible
it is written This is not a quotation of any particular passage. -It is recorded in Scripture".
a bondmaid Lit. - thebondmaid", Hagar; so - thefree woman", Sarah. Hagar was an Egyptian slave in the…
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