7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. …
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? …
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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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