Matthew Poole and continuators on Galatians 4:25

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia , and answereth to Jerusalem which now is , and is in bondage with her children .

Agar the bondwoman fitly represented Mount Sinai, the Mountain in Arabia, from which the Law was given:

And Ierusalem which now is answereth to Mount Sinai; for as in Mount Sinai the Law was given in a terrible manner, so now Ierusalem is the seat of the Scribes and Pharisees, who are the Doctors of that Law, and rigidly press the observation of it.

By which the Iews are kept in bondage: The Apostle speaketh not here of the civil servitude that the Iews were in under the Romans, to whom they were now Tributaries, but of that Religious servitude in which the Scribes and Pharisees kept them to their legal services.

Marginal references: Or, is in the same rank with.