What Woman Under the Law? An Analysis of the Figures of Sarah and Hagar According to Galatians 4, 21–31 in the Exegesis of Hilary of Poitiers
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https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTh.2024.008Keywords
Hilary of Poitiers, exegesis, soteriology, New TestamentAbstract
One remarkable feature of Hilary of Poitiers’ analysis of the Abraham cycle with regards to faith and choice is his exegesis of Sarah and Hagar. Indeed, a comparison between the facts described in Genesis and their treatment in the Pauline corpus is paradoxical: how can Sarah, who was unable to trust the angel at Mamre and who manipulated the terms of the promise by involving her slave Hagar, whom she treated cruelly, become a figure of the Church, whereas Hagar is associated to the degrading qualities of slavery? This paper will analyse the extent to which Hilary of Poitiers relies on the Pauline allegory of Sarah and Hagar in his dispensational theory.
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