²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

²³ But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

²⁴ Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

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

Definition

allegory

noun

al·​le·​go·​ry ˈa-lə-ˌgȯr-ē 

plural allegories

1

: the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence