These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.