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Abraham's Life HistoryAn Allegoryof the Divine Plan of the Ages.It hns been written that Abraham had two sons, ore from thebond-wornat~, and onefrom the freewoman. Now, the one frerrrthe bondwoman wus born according to theflesh; but Ira of thefreeu*oman was through the promise. Which things are unallegory; for these represent tuto covenants. (Gal. 4: 22-31.1Had it not been for this authoritative statement of theApostle, would it have occurred to us that Abraham's twowives are allegorical of two covenants?Our attention having been drawn to this fact, we find,when we study Abraham's career, that his whole lifehistoryis an allegory. All the events of his life wereoverruled and recorded in such a manner, that they formin their sequence a living picture, epitomising the completePlan of the Ages. As Bible students know, theScriptures abound with such illustrations. They are alldesigned by our loving heavenly Father to strengthen ourfaith; to make the glorious Plan of the Ages appear soreal, that we can believe in it as firmly as that to-morrowwill dawn."Allegory " is not an English, ,,but a Greek, word.Translated into English it reads: adapted to anothermeaning." While Abraham enacted his life in a naturalway, and apparently without restriction, yet, in God'sprovidences, every incident and event, and every personthat came into his life, was adapted to mean some featurein the Plan of God.