Peter and Paul
1 Peter 3: 18-21
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he
might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in
which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God's
patience waited in the time of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that
is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism which corresponds to this, now saves
you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear
conscience ...
Galatians 4: 21-28
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it
is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son
of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise.
Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing
children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to
the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is
free, and she is our mother. For it is written,
"Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and shout, you who are not in travail;
for the children of the desolate one
are many more than the children of
her that is married." [Is.54.1]
Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise ...
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