GENESIS CHAPTER 17 God renews his covenant with Abram, GENESIS 17:1. His name in token thereof changed, GENESIS 17:5. Kings shall be born of him, GENESIS 17:6. The covenant established with his seed, GENESIS 17:7. The promise of Canaan to him and his seed repeated, GENESIS 17:8. Circumcision institu... [ Continue Reading ]
I am come to renew, establish, and enlarge that covenant which I formerly made with thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABRAM FELL ON HIS FACE, partly in self-abasement, and a humble sense of his own undeservedness of such favours; and partly in reverence and worship to God, and a thankful acknowledgment of his marvellous kindness. Compare LEVITICUS 9:24 EZEKIEL 43:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Both literally, or after the flesh, of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, &c., and spiritually, of all believers of all nations, to whom Abram hath in some sort the place of a father, ROMANS 4:12,17. Not only as he was the great example and teacher of that faith by which they are all saved, (as... [ Continue Reading ]
ABRAHAM, i.e. _the father of a multitude; Ham_ in the Hebrew being put for _Hamon, _ which signifies a _multitude, _ by a figure called _apocope, _ which is usual in proper names.... [ Continue Reading ]
So did the kings of Israel and Judah, of Edom, of the Saracens, and the Messias, who is King of kings, and Lord of lords.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Whatsoever I am or have, all that shall be thine, and shall be employed for thy protection, consolation, and salvation. This phrase contains in it the confluence of all blessing, temporal, spiritual, and eternal. See LEVITICUS 26:12 PSALMS 33:12, PSALMS 144:15 JEREMIAH 31:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO THY SEED; unto thee, not in thy own person, but in thy seed. See GENESIS 13:15,17. FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION; upon condition of their obedience to God, as is oft expressed; wherein seeing they so notoriously failed, it is no wonder if they _possessed it but a little while, _ as the prophe... [ Continue Reading ]
The agreement is mutual: my part was expressed before; now follows thy part, and the condition to which my promise and blessing is annexed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Circumcision is here called the _covenant_ by a usual metonomy, because it is the condition, sign, and seal of the covenant, the pledge of God's promise and man's duty. And upon the same grounds the _cup, _ i.e. the wine, is called _the new testament in Christ's blood_, LUKE 22:20; or, which is all... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN, i.e. by a usual hypallage, _the foreskin of your flesh; _ and the word _flesh_ is here put for the genital part, as it is LEVITICUS 15:2,19 EZE 16:26 23:20, and elsewhere. This part God singled out for this ordinance, because it is and was a great instrument both in the c... [ Continue Reading ]
EIGHT DAYS; not before that time, because of the child's weakness and imperfection, and impurity too, EXODUS 22:30 LEVITICUS 12:3, for which reason also beasts were not to be offered to God before the eighth day, EXODUS 22:30. EVERY MAN-CHILD IN YOUR GENERATIONS, successively, until the Messias come... [ Continue Reading ]
So it was, and is properly in regard of the thing signified to all true believers; and for the sign, it is so called because it was to endure through all generations till the coming of the Messias; the word _olam, _ here and elsewhere rendered _everlasting, _ or _for ever, _ being oft used to expres... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE UNCIRCUMCISED MAN-CHILD; or rather, _and as for the uncircumcised man-child._ So the nominative is put absolutely, as is frequent in the Hebrew tongue. WHOSE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN IS NOT CIRCUMCISED, or, _who shall not circumcise the flesh of his foreskin; _ for the Hebrew verb may be render... [ Continue Reading ]
SARAI signifies _my lady, _ or _my princess, _ which confines her dominion to one family; but SARAH signifies either a _lady_ or _princess, _ simply and absolutely without restriction, or _the princess of a multitude, _ the Hebrew letter _he_ being taken out of _Hamon, _ and added to her name, as it... [ Continue Reading ]
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He LAUGHED, through admiration and holy rejoicing at so great a blessing, not through unbelief, as Sarah did, GENESIS 18:12,13, as appears from ROMANS 4:19,20. And though the outward act was the same in both, yet God discerned their differing dispositions and intentions therein.... [ Continue Reading ]
Grant, O Lord, that the giving of one son may not be joined with the taking away of another; that Ishmael may faithfully serve thee, and may have a share in thy favour and gracious covenant. For this seems to be the meaning of this phrase of _living before God, _ or _in God's presence, _ by comparin... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAAC signifies _laughter, _ not from Sarah's laughter, which as yet had not happened, but from Abraham's past laughter, GENESIS 17:17, and future joy in his son.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE HEARD THEE, to wit, in part, or so far as is here expressed; and probably, as to the chief blessing of the covenant, to wit, the forgiveness of his sins, and eternal life, as the Hebrew doctors and some others collect from GENESIS 25:17, and from other considerations.... [ Continue Reading ]
The covenant of the promised Seed to come out of his loins, and of life and salvation to accrue to himself and to his posterity by virtue of that Seed; in comparison whereof God speaks slightly of all the temporal blessings conferred upon Ishmael, though in themselves they were great and glorious. B... [ Continue Reading ]
To heaven in a visible manner, as it seems he conversed with him in some visible shape. Compare GENESIS 35:13 JUDGES 13:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
CIRCUMCISED THE FLESH OF THEIR FORESKIN; partly by his own hand, and partly by the help of others, whom he by Divine instinct called to and directed in that work; IN THE SELF-SAME DAY, in which God appeared to him and gave the command. So he made haste and delayed not to execute God's command. And h... [ Continue Reading ]
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