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30. ἀλλὰ. In contrast to the domineering action of Ishmael, and the present circumstances of believers in the world.
τί λέγει ἡ γραφή, The question makes the contrast all the sharper. On ἡ γραφή see Gal 3:8 note.
ἔκβαλε κ.τ.λ. Sarah’s words in Gen 21:10, verbally from the LXX. which = Hebr. The quotation serves at once as an encouragement to faith in the future (the persecution shall not continue), and a peremptory summons to the Galatians to set themselves free from the domineering attitude of the false teachers. For this use of ἐκβάλλειν Moulton and Milligan compare 3Jn 1:10 and a marriage contract of the time of Augustus, where a man is bound over not to ill-treat his wife, μηδʼ ἐγβαλεῖν (sic), “nor to divorce her” (Expositor, VII. 7, 1909, p. 89).
οὐ γὰρ μὴ κληρονομήσει. The double thought of both promise and command is carried on; cf. Moulton, Proleg., 1906, p. 177.
τῆς ἐλευθέρας. St Paul’s explanatory substitute for μον Ἰσαάκ; necessary, as the words are put into the mouth of ἡ γραφή.