Discovery BoxGalatians 4:24-25 
Context4:24 These things may be treated as an allegory, 1 for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. 4:25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
Galatians 5:1
ContextFreedom of the Believer
5:1 For freedom 2 Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke 3 of slavery.
1 tn Grk “which things are spoken about allegorically.” Paul is not saying the OT account is an allegory, but rather that he is constructing an allegory based on the OT account.
2 tn Translating the dative as “For freedom” shows the purpose for Christ setting us free; however, it is also possible to take the phrase in the sense of means or instrument (“with [or by] freedom”), referring to the freedom mentioned in 4:31 and implied throughout the letter.
3 sn Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.
