I wonder what a good Jew would have thought as Paul began his discourse on the status of the Jews in Gal 4:21? I could just imagine them nodding away sagely as they happily affirm the first part of Paul's argument - all the way to the first part of 4:24 - and then choking on their tassles when Paul so fundamentally reinterprets the Jewish nation's ancestry from Abraham. Wouldn't they be tearing their hair out at Paul's use of Ishmael as a reinterpretation of the Jewish religion? At the very least Paul seems to have seismically departed from the traditional understanding of Judaism.
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