gory: for
these are the two covenants; the one from mount Sinai, which gendereth to
bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and
answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." Gal.
4:21-26. Here the apostle uses the two sons of Abraham allegorically. They
represent the two covenants or testaments. See margin. The one by the
bondmaid he uses to represent the testament or covenant given from Sinai.
The one by the free woman, the covenant given by Christ, or the New
Testament.

The apostle goes further and tells us what disposition to make of the two
sons or testaments. "Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the
bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with
the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but of the free." Gal. 4:30, 31. The mission of the Sinaitic
law is completed. It has finished its course. We are in the glorious
freedom of the New Testament. Paul adds in the next chapter, "Stand fast
therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Ver. 1.

He speaks further of the two covenants in the eighth chapter of Hebrews,
and says, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he
saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I
took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they
continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
What was the covenant that God made with Israel when he led them out of
the land of Egypt? It was the entire law given at Sinai, including the ten
commandments. Whoever would here make a division in the covenant, and say
only the ceremonial law is included in the covenant mentioned in these
texts simply makes the assertion to sustain some adopted views of his
creed. There is no foundation here for any division. This first, covenant
is the whole covenant, and it was faulty. In verse thirteen he says it
waxeth old and is ready to vanish away.

Continuing in the ninth chapter the apostle speaks of the ordinances of
the first covenant, which stood in