And forty years being completed there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

This is he that was with the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give us,

These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar;

for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present Jerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.