desire to be under the _law_, do ye not hear the
law." What is it? Why, Abraham had two sons, one by his bond maid, Hagar,
the other by Sarah, his wife. These two women represent the two covenants.
Hagar represents mount Sinai, where God gave the first covenant. Hagar
also answers to the present Jerusalem, now in bondage; Sarah represents
the second covenant, (which gives entrance into the) _New_ Jerusalem. See
9.

In the fifth chapter he begins again with circumcision, 2d and 3d verses.
In the 4th verse he says, "Whosoever of you are justified by the _law_ are
fallen from grace." This is the law of circumcision; see 6th and 11th
verses: "If I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution."
Now see the contrast at the close of his argument. Here is the law of God;
see 14th verse: "For _all_ the law is fulfilled in one word, even this,
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was his very expression to
the Romans, four years previous; see xiii: 9. Here he has cited them to
the second table of stone in God's law, in respect to their neighbor,
which is alone, the clear meaning; and we are saved by "keeping the
commandments of God and faith of Jesus."--Rev. xii: 12; xxii: 14. Paul did
not stop to explain about these two covenants, but merely alluded to them
to show the two entirely different modes of worship under the two
dispensations. His letter to the Hebrews six years afterwards, explains,
"Now the first covenant had _ceremonies_ of _divine_ service and a worldly
sanctuary," ix: 1. Now the covenant ITSELF was in the ark; see 4th verse.
Now these rites and ceremonies which stood in meats and drinks, &c. were
carnal ordinances, a figure for the time then present, until the
reformation, or coming of the new covenant. Not a syllable about the
fourth commandment in 4th verse being a figure, or ordinance or ceremony,
or being done away. Why? Because in the preceding chapter, 6-10th verses,
he shows is the new or second covenant, which was to succeed the first,
and Jesus was to be the mediator of it. Now the first covenant was the ten
commandments, with ceremonies, &c. The second covenant is (_my laws_) the
same ten commandments, (not as before, on tables of stone,) but in our
minds and on our hearts; 10th verse. Connected with this is the testimony
of Jesus Christ--proof, Rev. xii: 17; xix: 10, and xiv: 12. This is the
New, or Gospel Covenant, which Jesus Christ came to confirm. Then all that
was nailed to the