5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. …
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here, I. God tried Isaac by his providence. Isaac had been trained up in a believing dependence upon the divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; yet now there is a famine in the land , Gen. 26:1. What shall he think of the promise when the promised land will not find him bread? Isa. such a grant worth accepting, upon such terms, and after so long a time? Yes, Isaac will still clea…
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