PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis
Thomas Whitelaw [1840-1917] · 541,608 words · 594 reading sections
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tho.t the covennnt nlren<ly concluded wv.s ever (vide eh. ix. 16; xiii. 15). And I will about to be. carried into execution, and the be their God. Literally, to them for Elo- promise of e. son to be more epecilico.lly him (vide supra). aetermined os the offspring of So.ro.i (Keil). Ver. 9.-And God so.id unto Abraham, T…
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ancient nntions, but not univers11l among amongiit his nation, from among his people the Egyptians" (Kalisch). Though not 11d- (Levit. xvii, 4, 10; Numb. xv. M), from minist~re,l to both, the symbol was ordained Israel (Exod. xii, 16 ; Numb. xix. 13), from for the sake of both sexes (Calvin)--in your the congregatio…
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Abram and hie Reed. Hence the inference which Paul drawa (Gal. iii. 14-18) was deaigned to be deduced by the patriarch,-that the true and proper recipients of the covenanted merciea were not to be his natural, but spiritual descendants. See the pro• rninence in respect of clearness of revelation which God assigns to th…
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what can be said for it (cf. Rom. :tiv. 4) _; or he has £~lien into self-sufficiency. Then reser,e towards God. The hidden hfe becomes disordered. 'No longer tho desire that he should know all and guide all. And thus uneasiness, reserve, dis- tance.. Then follow ~Ian~ to quiet the uneasiness-;busin_ess, cere!'1ony, …
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vlJ't, to laugh. er. Kaxal;w Kayxal;w, cachin- me.le among the men of Abraham's house; ,ior, Gorman, kichern; ui iys;\auE (LXX.); and oircumcised the flesh of their foreskin rejoiced (Onkelos) ; marvelled (Jerome, Tar. in the self-same day. Literally, in the bone gums) ; laughed for joy (.Arabic version, of that da'/…
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instea.d of from the Ethiopians, as appears to contrary, the Biblicn.l narrative expressly be the judgmcnt of Kalisch. Against tho mentions that its observanoe by the pe.tri- idea thn t circumcision was a national and arch and his household was due to a Divine nni,e=I observance among the Egyptians command, and was …
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to,the reiterated promise of a son, was chiefly due to the announcement that Sarah 'IY'IIB to. be its mother. It was the joy of a husband in the happiness of a beloved wifo, long tried, but at length about to be rewarded ; it was also the joy of a believing nusband in the well-founded assurance of his wife's interest…
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EXPOSITION. standing hy him. AJ,d when he eaw them CHAPTER XVIII. (i. e. understood the.1 one of them was Je- Ver. 1.-And the Lord-Jehovah, the hovah, Jarchi rightly explaining that the Divine nnme employed throughout tho pre- wortl translated abovn "looked " i. e. with sent nnd succeeding chapters, ,Thich are the…
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(Knliecb). "Whenever our path led ue near tent unto Sarah, and ,a.id, Make ree.dy an encampment, as was frequently the case, quickly three meaB11rea - Hebrew, three we always found some active sheikh or eeahs, a seah being R third of an ephah, and venore.blo patriarch sitting 'in his tent containing 374 cubic inches ea…
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proi;(l'ess, or perhaps at the closo of, the meal mended 118 a pattern to Christian wives (l saying), Where is Sarah thy wife I (thus in• Pot. iii. 6). dica ting that thei1· visit hod a special referenco Yer. 13.-And the Lord said unto Abra- to her). And he Hid, Behold, in the tent. ham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,~-i q…
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still, by him who claims the angels as bis ministers (Ps. viii. 4; Isa. !vii. 17). 2. Tlie reception eliey obtained. Immediately that Abraham discerned their approach, be hastened to accord them most respectful and courteous salutation, in true Oriental fashion, foiling on his knees and bowing till bis head touched t…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS.· Vers. 1-15.-The theophany at Mam1·e. I. THE DIVINE VISIT TO THE. PATmAncH. 1. A remarkable proof of the Divine condescension. 2. A striking adumbration of the incarnation of Christ. 3. An instructive emblem of God's gracious visits to his saints. II. THE DIVINE FEAST WITH TRI!: PATRIARCH…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 16. -And the men rose up from equivalent to liis deed, the action is regaru.ell thence,-Mamro (vide supra, ver. I)-and by the Speaker ns being nlready ns good ns looked towards Sodom. Literally, towai·d finished (vide Ewald, 'Heb. Syut.,' § 13~; the face (Rosenmiiller), or towards the plnin Gesenius, …
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HOMILETICS. Ver. 17.-Sodom's doom revealed. I. THE REASON OF THE REVELATION. 1. Abralrn.m's new posit-ion. Having been lately taken into covenant with God, allied "by tLe holy tie of a celestial friendship to Jehovah, the patriarch seemed in the Lord's eyes to occupy a footing of intimacy before him that demanded the …
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l11w, or rough human 11dmi11istration of law, but. the rig·ht of him who discornelh between the eYil ond the good, "too wise to err, too g·ood to be unkind. "-R. Ver. 19.-God's ru.le in the family. "For I know him, that he will command his childre_n and his housel!old ofter him, and they shall keep the way of the Lo…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 23.-And Abraham drew near. I. e. his complete design, perhaps regnrding such to Jehovah; not simply locally, ~ut also an absolute reversal of the Divine purpose a, spiritually. The religious use of WJ~ as a exceedin~ the legitimate bounds of creatur~ performing religious services to God, or a supplica…
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fo profane thinq.1 (he it) to thee= ncfas sit tibi= absit a te I nn exclamation of al,horrencc, too feebly rendered by ,,.,8aµwi: first petition), Behold now, I have taken upon me-literally, I have bequn, though hero perhaps used in a more emphatic sense : I (LXX. )-to do after this manner (literally, have undert…
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Though doubtloss tho righteous character of the impending retribution hart been expl11ined to him, its appalling severity was such as to thrill his feeling heart with nnguish, which would certainly not be lessened, but intensified, if he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon the future into which thl\t overwhelming cal…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XIX. b1·oad open spaces (i. e. the streets of the town) 1oe u·i/1 pass the ni,ght ,· no great Yer. 1.-And there came two angels- hardship in thnt climate. literallJ, the t100 angel.s, i. e. the two men Ver. 3. - And he preseed upon them of the preceding chapter who accompanied greatly. Being hi…
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(cf. eh. iv. 1), tl1ough, according to some, Knobel, Gesenius); Approach hither (Baum- alrcnrly betrothed to two Sodomitee (ver. H) garten, Kalisch) ; Come near, farther off -let me, I pre.y you, bring them out 11nto (' Speaker's Commentary'). And they said you; aud do ye to them as is goo·d in your aga1D, This one fel…
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Sodornius, Unless a process of moral deterioration had been going ort within the soul of Lot, residence among a people so depraved would eventually have becomo tmpossible. Instead of being merely vexed in his righteous soul while in Sodom, he would have taken the earliest opportunity to escape from Sodom. (2) Tliat …
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greo.t before the face _of the Lord (cf. eh. vi. also given to Lot's wife and daughters; per- 11; x. 9); and the Lord (Jehovah) hath haps to hicle God's working in the fiery eent us (language never employed by the judgment from mortal vision (Knobel), but Maleach Jeh()1}ah) to destroy it. more likely to express detesta…
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loading down from Hebron to the Dead Sea, c>n the wf.st side of the lake (De Sanccy); in ':,:sv is again employed (cf. eh. xix. 8)-and all the plain,-kikkm·, circle or district (eh. the Ghor-d-llfez1·aa, i. e. upon the southern xiii. 10)-and all the inh&bita.nts of the peninsula, which projects a long way into cit…
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roll.Bona BBsignetl for this conclusion may be zon-tamar to the vale of Siddim, ancl from sto.ted. 1. J ose1;1hus and Jerome, the one Siddi.m to Dan, the natural conclusion being reprosenting Jewish, nnd the other Christian, that on reaching Hazezon-tamar he dicl not tradition, both epeo.k of a Zoar as existing tum so…
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with the solemn announcen~ent of the gospel, which necessitates that they be vehe- mently presser!, like Lot, w1th-(l) Earnest admonition. "Arise I'' "Up I" "Get thee out of this place I " (2) Serious caution. " Lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city." 3. Grawusly asmted, Even the urgency displayed by the…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vera. 23-25.-The rigliteousness of God revealed. The judgment of God upon Sodom and the cities of the plain. The deliverance of Lot. The reception of the two angels by Lot was a great contrast to that of ~he three by Abraham. The scene of the Divine judgment is suggestive. The plam of th…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 2g,-And it came to paBS-not a plu- remembered Abraham. If the narrative con• perfect (Rosen.miiller), as if a direct con- taining the intercession of Abmham and the tinuation of the preceding narrative, but a overthro\V of Sodom was due to the Jehovist, preterite, being the commencement of a new ho…
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tain (i. e. of Moab, on the enst of the Dead stand, though we cannot cen.se to abhor, their Sen), and his two daughters-step-daughters, incestuous cond net" (Kalisch). Their pro- it hne been suggested, if Lot married a widow posal was revolting and unnatural in the ex- who wns the mother of the two girls (Starke) tr…
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Yer. 36.-Thue were both the daughters always used of events which had taken placo of Lot (who after this disappears from sacred several centuries before the time of Moses, as history, not even his death being recorded) in eh. xxvi. 33; xxxv. 20; xlvii. 26 (cf. with child by their father. Keil, 'Introduction,' part i. §…
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EXPOSITION. lapse of upwards of twenty years since that CHAPTER XX. former mistake may have deadened the im- Ver. 1.-And Abraham journeyed (vide pression of sinfulness which Pharaoh's rebukB eh. xii. 9) from thence. Mamre (eh. xviii. must have left upon his conscience ; whib l ). In search of pasture, as on a previo…
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at Gerar explained as the original legend, of tribes mts a proof thnt the hour hnd not which the story of Sarah's abduction by arrived for the infliction on them of the Pharaoh is the Jehovistic imitation. But doom of extermination, (l) tl1e use of Elohim throughout the present chapkr is sufficiently accounted for …
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dylnr, t/101~ shale die (cf, eh. iL 17)-tho11, (Josephus, Augustine, Jerome, Jona\h,rn). and all that rtrc thine. That she was Ternh's niece, being a brother's Ver, 8. -Therefore Abimelech rose early daughter adopted by hiin, has received soma in the morniug,-nn evidence of the terror support (Calvin); bnt there seems…
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01"\linary somc'ehat less. :Behold, he-i. e. preceding words ',:i·n~,. that, with regaru thy brotl1er; or it, i. e. the present (LXX., to all, right had been obtained (Fiirst), Yulgate, Targums, Syrinc)-is to thee a or that all had been done that she might covering of the eyes. Cl~?V. n~c~ (from a bo righted (Murphy…
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HOMILETICS. Vera. 1-18.-Auraluzm in Cerar, or two royal sinners. I. THE BIN ?F 1_'IIE HEBREW PATRIARCH. 1. An old S'in repeated. "A?rnham said. of S~rah !us wife, She is my sister." Twenty years before the same miserable equivocation _had _be.en circulated in Egypt. A sin once committed is not difficult to repeat, esp…
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nmnLIES BY VARIOUS AUTHOUS. Vrr. 2.-Falseliood the f1"ltit of urweluf. "Abrnham said of Sarah liis wife- ~lie is my sister.". Notice ho," imperfectly the obligation of truth recognised in Old Test.~ment t1n:ies. Not only among heathen, or those who knew little c.~ God (,Josh. 11. ?. ; 2 Kmgs x. 18), but godly men a…
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EXPOSITION. \"ho assigns that function to the mother; but CHAPTER XXI. vide eh. xvi. 15-that was born unto him, Ver. 1.-And the Lord-Jehovah; not whom Sarah bare to him (the latter clause because the verse is Jehovistic (Knobel, being added to distinguish him from Hagar's Bleek, et ol,ii), but because the promise ch…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-8.-The •·on of promise, or a young child's biograpliy. I. Tm: BinTII OF lsAAC. 1. A surprising phenomenon. " Who would have said that Sarah should have suckled sons?" Motherhood at ninety was certainly unusual, especially when conjoined with paternity at a hundred. In a world presided over by a p…
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EXPOSITION. T'cr. !l. -And Sarah saw-at the feast festly betrayed by her maternal fears and already mentioned (Knobel, Keil); probabl;i: womanly jealousy. also on different occasions since the birth of Ver. _11.-And ,the thing (literally, tlM lsanc-the son of Hagar the Egyptian, WO'l d, 1. e. Sarah s proposal) was …
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 9---14.-Tlie expulsion of Ishmael. I. THE CAUSE. 1. The persecution oj Isaac. "Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian mocking." That thiii "·as no mere sportive pleasantry may be inferred from the deep feeling it aroused in Sarah, the summary chastisement it brought on Ishmael, and th• seY{lre langu…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 15.-And the water was spent in and wept. The verbs, being feminine, indi- (literally, from) the bottle,-so that the cate that it is Hagar's grief which is here wanderers became exhausted, and were in described, and that the rendering, " and the danger of fainting through thirst-and she child lifted…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 15-21.-Hagar and Ishmael, oi· the fortunes of the outcasts. I. TnE LONELY WANDERERS. 1. Banished from liome. Hitherto the household of Abraham had been to Hagar and her boy such o pleasant and doubtless much-prized abode ; henceforth their connection with the patriarch's encompment was to be complete…
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htrn through Abr1Llrnm, for Abraham's eake. 'fhe course of Ishmael's life illustratr.~ the contrust between a truly religious career and one given up to natural impulse. Cf. Esau and Joseph'e brethren.-R. Ver. 19.-Hagar in the wilderness. "And God opened her eyes, and she eaw a well of water." Hagar in the wilderness.…
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Hence lie had_ prayed, "0 that Ish!11ael might li':o before thee 11 (eh. :xvii. 18). P~rhnps unbelief had n_iuch to do with the expression of the hope. He indicated his own contentment with that mode of fulfilment of the promises•1 God however has another. Abraham ev\dently _lo:cd the lad, and now that he is gro,~n …
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to tho old habit, and still loves the fighting. The archers, like IHhmael, h;i.vc tLcir sphere as well as the shepherds, like Isaacs. The fiery defenders of faith and the controversial champions of the truth have their sphere as well ae the pious, plodding pastors of Christ's flock. If men have skill for the one thi…
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EXPOSITION. Yer. 22.-And it oame to pass at that time, servants) because of a well of water, which -possibly in immediate sequence to the iu- Abimeleoh's servants had violently taken cident of the preceding chapter, but, "ac- away. 'fhe greatest possible injury of a cording to the common law of HebT<:w nar- material …
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water, "The grc11t well hns nn internal (LXX.)-was probably the Tamarix Afn:- dinmoter nt the ruouth of twelve feet six ca'YUTJ (Gesenius, Fiirst, Delitzsch, Rosen- inchos, or 1L circumference of nearly forty mtiller, Kalisch), which, besides being com- feet. The she.ft is formed of oxcellcnt mon in Egypt and Petraia, …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 22-34.-A covenant between the patriarch and the Philistine king. .Abra- ham a sojourner in that land, afterwards the troubler of Israel ; for his sake ns disci- pline, for their sakes as opportunity. 1. God's care for those beyond the covenant. A Beersheba in a heathen land. 2. The t…
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iu a etl'iki11g m,y, onfl scne ot the snme with him (the ass for tlic wood, anu the time to prepnre us for the importance of the youn" men for the ass), and Isaac his son conversation" (Longe). (expl~ining to him as yet only his intention Ver. 2.-And he said, Take now-" the to offer samifice upon a <list.ant mountain)…
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of filial rcnr,·ncc nn,l en,lca1me11t thnt must (Lango); or the words nre used anthropomor• have lacerated Abraham's heart. As used phic.<i.1Jy (Calvin)-that thou fee.rest God,- by Isaac it signified a desiro to interrogate Elohim; the Divin11 intention being to his piirent-and he said, B:ere iim I, my son character…
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(Kalisch); "on tho mountain where Jehovah panying Divine oracles (cf. Isa. iii. 15 ; appears" (Keil). Amidst such e. conflict of ~zck. v. 11 ; .Amos vi. 8), though occurrin~ iuterpretations absolute certainty is perhaps II) the Pentateuch ouly here and in N um. unattainable; but the sense of the· proverb xiv. 28-for…
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his own enjoyment of the Divine favour, which could scar,Jely fail to be staggered by s~1?h an excruciating sta~ to his natural affection; but, (3) and chiefly, 1\9 to the stab1h_ty of the promise, winch reason could not but pronounce impossible of fulfil- ment 1f I~aa~ must_be put to death. Yet, overwhelming as the…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 12.-Abraltam'a perfect fauh. "Now I know that thou fearest God, eecing 1hou Jiast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." "The word of God," says Coleridge, "speaks to man, and therefore it speaks the language of the children ?f men. Tliis has to be kept in mind in studying the…
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type of man's helplessness to escape from the curse (cf. Luke iv.18), orfrom the law of sin in the members. The law of God of itself can only condemn. It can only be fulfilled by one "·ho loves God ; but he who is not at peace with God cannot love l,im. The sncrifice was now complete as far as Abraham could offer it…
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EXPOSlTIO~. Ver. 20.-And it came to pass after these Ver. 22.-And Chesed,-accordin~ to Je- things (probably not long after his return to rome the fother of the Chasdim or Chalrlees Beersheba), that it WBB told (by some un- (eh. xi. 28) ; but more generally regnrded as known messenger or occidental traveller from the h…
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miillor), or perhaps as going into Sarah's evinced to lie in !1TOtmd belonging to them• tent (Meimonides, Ainsworth, Wordsworth, selves (Rosenmlilfer), to an intention on the 'Speaker's Commentary') - to mourn for part of the patriarch to give a sign of his Sarah, and to weep for her. "To arrange right and title to …
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c,·cn to the children of Reth-a.n act of so close that the aporture may be covered by respect quite accordant with modem Oriental a single brick (Rawlinson's 'Ancient Mon• manners ('llide Thomson, 'La.nd and Book,' archies,' vol. i. p. 86}. In the absence of p. 5ig)_ such artificial receptacles for tho dead, the Ye…
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Epl1ron's offer of the fiel<l nncl cave ns a gift Vers. 17, 18.-And the field of Ephron, to he not wholly formal. I-lad ho regarded which was in Machpelah,-here the word is l~phron as all tho while desirous of n sale, he used as a proper name (vide atpra)-which wou!cl not have employed the language of entrcat.y. Tak…
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Haram, built of coloss:tl blocks, and situated both had omitted, ns the JHlminativo to on the motmmin slope of Hebron towws wvq,,aro (Beza, Calvin, Bishop Pearr,e\, the east (Robinson, Thomson, Stanley, 'fhe last of these hypotheses would n~t Tiistram), which, :tfter l1aving been for 600 indeed be fatal to the inspi…
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II. Tm: DURIAL ou SARAH, 1. Tlie daya of 111,()'/J,T11,i11,IJ, "Abraham ca1ne to mourn and to weep for Sarah." - The sorrow of the patriarch was-(1) Appropriate nnd becoming. Lamentation for the dead 11greeable to the instincts of nature and the dictates of religion. Witness Joseph (eh. 1. 1), David (2 Sam. xii. 16), J…
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The purchase showed his faith in God's truth; one of the branches of Adam's tempt• ation (Gen. iii. 4). It had been promised that his seed, aftor dwelling in n land not theirs, should return nnd possess that whereon he stood (cf. Jer. xxxii. 14, 15). Type of entrance into rest nfter pilgrimage (cf. 2 Cor. v. 1 ). It…
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