A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 65

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 65

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*Ats7:8 2 For Sarah * conceived and bare Abrahama ſon in If, : Ds. ; . . q! | 13'And allo of the fon of the bond-woman, will I He +22ug yo wi b 3 at the ſer time of which God had ſpo make a * nation, becauſe he is thy feed. *Chap:17 *Y b Or, For bir old age, i. e. for the comfort of his old age. 14 And Abraham roſe up early in the mor ning r, 29: 3 And Abraham cailed the name of his fon that was and took bread 5, and a bottle of water, and gave it * Chap:17 born unco him, whom Sarah bare to him, * Iſaac. unto Hagar ( putting ir on her (boulder ) and che.

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ture uſe, is the manifeſtation and execution of his Purpoſe or Word towards that Perſon, and that either for evil, and ſo it is an infli&- ing of evils threatned, as the word wiſiting is uſed, Exoa: 20: 5. P/al. 59: 5. or for good, and ſo'it is uſed for the aftual giving of Mer- Cics promiſed, as here and Gen: 50: 24. Exod: 4: 31. Ruth 1: 6.

4 And Abraham circumciſed his Son Ifaac, being eight days old, * as God had commanded him.

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wit, the Promifed Seed,the Heir of thy Eſtate, Covenant and Pro- miſes, the Progenitor of my Church and People, and particularly

q ( i. e. ) Reputed and valued both by me and other Men. The words may be thus rendered, by Iſaac flat thy ſeed be ; for to be called is oft-rimes pur for to be, as 7/3. 1: 26. and 47:1, 5. Matth: 5.9, 19 |

child, and ſent her away :: and the departed, and wandred in the wilderneſs of Beer-ſheba «.

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