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Allegory
Morrish Bible Dictionary
The word ἀλληγορέω occurs only in Galatians 4:24 . The passage does not mean that Abraham having two sons was an allegory: it was history, but that history had an allegorical application, which Paul, by the Holy Ghost, fully explains. The Greek word signifies 'to speak otherwise,' and an allegory is a description of one thing under the image of another.
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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Allegory'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/mbd/a/allegory.html. 1897.