30. *H ypapn, the /Scripture) Sarah [said], concerning Isaac [literally] ; the Scripture [saith so] by allegory. — exjS^Xe, cast out) from the house and the inheritance. — rqv vaidlffxyv xai rbv u/ov avrqs, the bond-maid and her son) The servile condition of itself deserves expulsion ; but persecution [on the part of the bond servant] against spiritual sons furnishes a handle for putting the punishment in execution. — ov 'yap py ftfajpoiup^d*}, for he shall not be heir) Sarah looks to the Divine appointment regarding Isaac as the one and only heir, although Ishmael also had been cir cumcised.
31 -1 Trig sXsv&spag, of the free) In the liberty follows. An An- adiplosis.2
1. Ty eXevfapicf, — ffrqKire, stand fast — in the liberty) The short clause, wherewith Christ has made us free, has the force of aetio logy, or assigning the reason. Liberty, and slavery (bondage), are antithetic. It is without any connecting particle, iii. 13 : rfi eXevfapfcfr [by virtue of the] liberty, is emphatically put with out sv, in : liberty itself confers the power of standing. 'HXsuds- puffe signifies has rendered free, and J coheres with free [rather than with the rendered^ : stand, erect, without a yoke. — irdX/v, again) ch. iv. 9, note. — Q>y$ dovteiae, with the yoke of bondage) This expression is applied, not merely to the circumcision which was given to Abraham as the sign of the promise, but to circum cision as connected with the whole law, given long after on Mount Sinai, ch. iv. 24, iii. 17. For the Jews had been accus tomed to look upon circumcision rather as a part of the law received by Moses, than as the sign of the promise given to Abraham, John vii. 22. Nor was circumcision so much a yoke
1 Ovx, iapev, we are not, i.e. we neither ought nor wish to be. — V. g.
2 See A pp. The repetition of the same word in the end of the preceding and in the beginning of the following member. Here the 7% thsvOspac at the end of this ver., and the conjugate word Tj? s^v^eptef at the beginning of ch. v. 1, constitutes the Anadiplosis. — ED.