In this text Paul continues to contrast grace and law, faith and works. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit he employs an Old Testament story as an analogy, which serves not so much as an argument as an illustration. The translators of both the King James Version and the New American Standard Bible have chosen simply to transliterate rather than translate the term allēgoreō (allegorically, v. 24). This has led to difficulty in handling the passage, because usually an allegory is either a