_— tent door which as behind him 4. | Re rFs 0 Not in a viſible ſhape, but with my powerful and effeQtual "2 —_ Preſence to fulfil my promiſe. p This time may reſpe&, either RY. 72 1. Abraham and Sarah ; in the time of life, 1. e. when you ſhall be buth alive and in health. Bur if it belonged to them, it might ſeem better ro underſtand it thus ; In the time when God ſhall reſtore life, ( 5. e. )/ vigour and a&ivity to you ; for till then both Abraham's Body, and Sarah's Womb are exp.cily ſaid to be dead, Rom: 4:19. to which deadneſs this life may be oppolite ; and the time of reſto'ing this lolt po ver of Generation may well be cal- led # time of life, .it being a kind of life from the dead, and an impowering of him for a vital ation from which he was before diſenabled, and for the conveying of life to a Child, and perpe- tuating his own life in him. Or 2. To the Child, according to the time of life, i. e. in the time which is uſual for the Conception, Quickaing, and Brnging forth of a living Child. Which inter- pretation receiveth ſome countenance fiom 2 Kirgs 4. 16. where we have the ſame phraſe. Or 3. To the year, according to the time, or this time of life, or living time, i. e. when this time or ſeaſon of the year ſhall revive, 7. e. return or be reſtored : As Cities and Buildings are ſaid to be revived, when they are repaired or revuilr, as 1 Chron: 11: 8. Nehem. 4. 2. And tivis ſeaſon might more pro- erly be ſaid to revive, and be called rhe time of life, becauſe It may be gathered from the heat, verſe r. and their refreſhing themſclve. under the ſhadow of a Tree, that it was th2 Spring-time, when Herbs and Plants and Trees, which ſeem to be dead in the Winter, recover and thew forth their life and vigour : And fo the ſenſe may be this, according to this time which is a time of life, or reviving, wherein as the Beaury and Fruits of the Earth will be renewed and revives, ſo thou and Sarah ſhall be revived or receive, as it were, a new life in the Son that ſhall be born to you. This ſenſe ſeem; more probable than either of the former; becauſe Ne ſpeaks of a certain ſer or appointed time, verſe 14 Rom: 9 9. Gem. 21 2. and that time was abour a year after this, as may avpear by comparing Gen: 17: 24. and Gen: :1: 5 (7. e.) Ar the back of the Ange} that ſpoke with him. Which is here added ro thew that he knew her L2ughter, not by the ſight of his Eyes, but by his all-ſeeing
Knowledge.
11 Now * Abraham and Sarah were old, and wel!
*Chap: 17. : and it ceaſed to be with Sarah after
17. Kom: ſtricken in age :
4:19 the manner of women 7. ; HeD:11. », As to thoſe monthly Efluvinms peculiar to her Sex, which are 1, 12. neceſſary to conception, compare Gen: 31: 35.
12 Therefore Sarah iaughed « within her ſelf z, ſay- *Luke::. Ing, * Affter Lam waxen old, ball I have pleaſure, «
18. my * Ford beirg od alſo? | iPet:3:6: 5 Not from joy and admiration, but from aiNruſt and contempr,
.
rided it, though none bur her ſelf,as {he thoughr,knew it. » Nor ſo
much in the conceprion, as in the education and fruition ofa Ch1'd. ,
12 Ard the LORD ſaid unto Abraham. Wherefore
did Sarah laugh. ſaying, Shall I of a ſwiery bear a child, '
which am old ? | *TJer:32: 14 *Is anything too hard for the LORD «2.7 ar the 17. Zech: time 'appointed will I return unto thee, according to 8:6, Luke the time of life, and Sarah ſhall have a ſon.
I: 37. * Heb. Hid from God ? So the ſenſe is, though the laughed only + Chap: 5 her Heart, it is not unkaown to me : Or rather 00 wonderful for T7:2I. Godto effe& ? Which beſt ſuits with the following words.
i5 Then Sarah denied y, ſaying. 1 iaughed not : for ſhe was afraid And he ſaid, Nay, but thou didft laugs.
4 From the ſenſe of Guilt, and rhe diſcovery of her Shame, a:d
the expetion of a fharp Rebuke both from this Perſon, and from |
her Husband. | 16 1 Aad the men roſe up from thence, and look- +. John. £4 towards todom : and Abraham wenr with them * co bring them 03 the way z. _ » A civility. ual then and afterwards: F 21; 5. Rom: 15: 24.1 Cor: 16. 1T, | Amos 3: 17 And the LORD ſaid, * Shall I hide from Abcra- 7- hamethatthing wiichT do ; | 3 q. d, T will not, Canor hide it ; it is againſt the Laws of Friendſhip to conceal my Secrets from him. The Interrogation here is in effe& a Negatio:. as elſewhere: Compare 2 Sam: 7. 5. with 1 Chron: 17: 4.and Matthy. 16.with Luke 6:43. See alſo mes 3.7. 18 Deng that Abrahan bail {ureiy DECOME a great and mighty nation, and alehe nations of che earth ſhall *Chap:12 be * bleJed in him b,
See As 20: 38: and
: and 22. 78.A&3.1 deny him the leſs ? Compare the rgument, Rom: 8; 22. God's 25. Gal.z. ways are not like Men's » ays. Forty favou.s ro Men are argu- ments why-they ſhould do no more ; ut co God rhey are motives for che addiag of new ones.
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as if ir were incredible. #t Heb. In her heart, 3. e. ſhe ſecretly de- |
| 1aP» >, 19 For I know him c, that he will command d his
children and his houſho!d after him e, and they (hall
| keep the way of the LORD, to do juſtice and juds- * ment g ; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham
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; that which he hath ſpoken of him 5. |