Galatians 4:26

Jerusalem which is above,— Under the name of Jerusalem is understood the gospel covenant, as will appear from the very etymology of the word; which signifies, the seeing or possessing of peace, or the peace-maker—a name highly applicable to the covenant of the Messiah, who is stiled, "The Prince of Salem, or, of Peace." The Apostle here refers to the free genius of Christianity, which, when compared with Judaism, made it evidently fit, in the illustration of this allegory, to consider the free-woman, that is, Sarah, as representing the church under this nobler form. The temple of God and the new Jerusalem, under the Christian dispensation, is the whole collective body, the universal church, consisting of converts fromJews and Gentiles.