2 Hence the omission of the word "Ayap in this verse, not so much approved
in bondage with her children, require Ha gar to be mentioned : For [wit/i] her is to be referred, as not to Sinai in the neuter, so much the less to Hagar ^ but to Jerusalem which now is. The former (Hagar) had a son, but the latter (Jerusalem) had sons. These remarks relate to the whole passage ; we shall now ob serve some things on each portion in detail. — 2/va o/?oc, Sinai, a mountain) Ver. 24 has from the Mount Sinai ; now the order of the words is changed \_Sinai going before mount here ; but mount before Sinai in ver. 24] (comp. Eph. ii. 1, note). In the former passage, more regard is had to the mountain, inasmuch as it was upon it that the law was given, whatever name it might have [the name Sinai not being taken into account there] ; after wards, it is rather considered as Sinai [the name Sinai being the prominent idea], a mountain in Arabia. — ffuffroi^sT ds) de, and yet [but], although it is in Arabia ; ffvffroi^sTv is used of that which agrees with something else in a comparison. This agree ment is evident in itself, for it is one and the same people that received the law on Mount Sinai, and that inhabit the city of Jerusalem ; and the people at both periods stand on the same footing.1 It is to be added, that Sinai and Jerusalem were nearly under the same meridian, and were united with slight interruption almost by the same chain of mountains. — rjj v\jv, that now is) The antithesis is, that is above. — vvv, now, refers to time, above to place ; the antithesis of either must be supplied from the other in the semiduplex2 oratio. The Jerusalem which is present ["that now is"], and earthly; the Jerusalem which is
of on the margin of the larger Ed., is reckoned among the fixed readings by the margin of the 2d Ed., in which the Germ.^Vers. concurs. But the things deserve to be compared which Michaelis has in der Einleitung, T. i. p. m. 646, where he shows that Hagar in the Arabic idiom denotes a rock, and there fore the words ro"Ayotp 2/K£ opos svTtv tv ry ' Apotfiia, ought to be thus trans lated : "The word Hagar signifies in Arabic the Mount Sinai."— E. B.
Lachm. read To yap 2/v£ with CG0r Vulg., omitting "Ayap: Tischend., To yoip "Ayetp 2/i>«, with both Syr. Versions and Rec. Text. B also has To "Ayxp. AD(A) Memph. read TO §£ "Ayetp. — ED.
1 " Eadem populi utroque tempore ratio." What holds good of the people at the one time, holds good of them at the other, as to their status and principles. — ED.
2 See App. An abbreviated mode of expression, when two members of a sentence stand in such a relation, that each needs to supply some words from the other. — ED.