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Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary

PETER BAYLE. An Historical and Critical Dictionary, D-P.

Bayle's Dictionary: Volume 2
HAGAR.

HAGAR.

Who would have thought that the ill-treatment of Hagar by Sarah, would one day serve as an apology for persecution? Yet the copious and imaginative mind of St Augustine, found out thereby, that the true church may inflict chastisements on the false one, exile and torment it.— Art. Hagar.