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For all the times we've talked about allegory in Genesis, i've never seen a reference to Galatians 4:24


where Paul himself is teaching to interpret the historical as an allegory.

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Critias said:
As I have said numerous times here, we understand what is written by the authors intended meaning and then look for what Jesus Christ is saying through it.

you miss the point.
Paul is teaching us hermeneutics. There is nothing in the Genesis story about Haggar and Sarah that would lead one to believe that there is an allegory there. But not only does Paul use the allegorical method to interpret the verses but makes the allegory more important than the historical.

That is far from the only example.
Jesus says that the rock Moses struck was Himself. Not only is the rock an allegory but it is a metaphor. The historical is a metaphor for the spiritual. Likewise in this example the spiritual is more important than the historical.


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translated in Gal 4:24 "contain an allegory" (AV, "are an allegory"), formed from allos, "other," and agoreuo, "to speak in a place of assembly" (agora, "the market-place"), came to signify "to speak," not according to the primary sense of the word, but so that the facts stated are applied to illustrate principles. The "allegorical" meaning does not do away with the literal meaning of the narrative. There may be more than one "allegorical" meaning though, of course, only one literal meaning. Scripture histories represent or embody spiritual principles, and these are ascertained, not by the play of the imagination, but by the rightful application of the doctrines of Scripture.


http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/choice/1124727716-1060.html
 
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