Galates 4.24

Grec : "Ces choses sont allégorisées," ont un sens profond renfermé sous les faits historiques.

En effet, si l'on a pu dire de l'histoire profane, avec une entière vérité, que chaque événement porte en lui l'enseignement qui ressort de tout l'ensemble de l'histoire ; à plus forte raison en est-il ainsi dans l'histoire du règne de Dieu.

Ce règne se développe graduellement, d'une manière organique, sous la direction de Dieu, de sorte que les faits les moins importants en apparence reflètent les plus grands événements ou plutôt les renferment en germe, comme le chêne majestueux fut pendant un temps caché dans le gland qui lui a donné naissance. (Comparer Matthieu 13.31,32)

En un mot, tous les faits du règne de Dieu sont à la fois histoire et prophétie. Il est donc légitime de rechercher dans les Écritures de l'A.T. ces grains de semence qui contenaient la riche moisson du N. T. ; mais il faut bien prendre garde à la position qu'occupe dans l'ensemble de l'histoire chaque événement particulier et ne jamais le détacher de cette liaison naturelle et organique, qui seule en indique le sens.

L'erreur de tant d'interprétations allégoriques vient de ce que, perdant de vue le cours général de l'histoire, abandonnant le ferme terrain des faits, on a voulu rattacher ces interprétations à des ressemblances fortuites, à des analogies arbitraires ; de sorte qu'au lieu d'expliquer l'histoire véritable, on se crée à côté de celle-ci une histoire fantastique, et alors il n'y a plus de bornes aux aberrations de l'imagination. Telles étaient les interprétations allégoriques fort en usage dans la littérature juive au temps de Paul.

En recourant à l'allégorie, l'apôtre était sûr d'être bien compris de ses premiers lecteurs. Mais peut-on dire qu'il ait évité tous les écueils du genre et ne soit pas tombé dans l'arbitraire en appliquant aux deux alliances l'exemple d'Agar et de Sara ? Ce rapprochement forcé n'ajoute rien à sa démonstration.

Luther disait déjà, avec un grand bon sens : "Par le moyen des allégories on ne peut rien fonder ni rien prouver d'une manière certaine ; mais elles servent à orner, à éclairer, à rendre plus intelligible une thèse bien démontrée d'autre part. Si Paul n'avait pas commencé par établir à force d'arguments solides que nous ne sommes pas justifiés devant Dieu par les œuvres de la loi, mais par la foi seule, il n'aurait rien prouvé par cette allégorie. Mais après avoir fondé cette vérité sur l'expérience des croyants, sur l'exemple d'Abraham, sur les témoignages et les déclarations de la sainte Écriture, il ajoute finalement cette allégorie pour agrémenter sa démonstration. Comme un tableau orne une maison qui a été auparavant bâtie sur de fermes assises et lui donne bonne apparence, ainsi l'allégorie embellit une solide argumentation."


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    • Genèse 16

      3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
      4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
      8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
      15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
      16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

      Genèse 21

      9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
      10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
      11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
      12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
      13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

      Genèse 25

      12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

      Deutéronome 33

      2 He said, "Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

      Ezéchiel 20

      49 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

      Osée 11

      10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

      Matthieu 13

      35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."

      Luc 22

      19 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."
      20 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

      Romains 8

      15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba ! Father!"

      1 Corinthiens 10

      4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
      11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

      Galates 3

      15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
      16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
      17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
      18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
      19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
      20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
      21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

      Galates 4

      24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
      25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

      Galates 5

      1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

      Hébreux 7

      22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

      Hébreux 8

      6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
      7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
      8 For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
      9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them," says the Lord.
      10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
      11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
      12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
      13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

      Hébreux 9

      15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
      16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
      17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
      18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
      19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
      20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
      21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
      22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
      23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
      24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

      Hébreux 10

      15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
      16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,
      17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."
      18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

      Hébreux 11

      19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

      Hébreux 12

      24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

      Hébreux 13

      20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

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