Galatians 4:26

4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, ¹  and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:31

4:31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, ²  we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

¹ sn The meaning of the statement the Jerusalem above is free is that the other woman represents the second covenant (cf. v. 24); she corresponds to the Jerusalem above that is free. Paul’s argument is very condensed at this point.

² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:11.