1And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
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The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Few under the Old Testament were brought into the world with such expectation as Isaac was, not for the sake of any great person eminence at which he was to arrive, but because he was to be, in this very thing, a type of Christ, that seed which the holy God had so long promised and holy men so long expected. In this account of the first days of Isaac we may observe, I. The fulfilling of God’s prom…
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