For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The bond-woman was called Hagar, and Hagar is the word for Mount Sinai in the language of that country. So that it is necessary that all who are born of the Old Covenant should be bondmen, for that mountain where the Old Covenant was delivered has a name in common with the bondwoman. And it includes Jerusalem, for this is the meaning of,
