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Verse Genesis 17:10. _EVERY MAN - CHILD - SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED._]
Those who wish to invalidate the evidence of the Divine origin of the
Mosaic law, roundly assert that the Israelites received the rit...
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- The Sealing of the Covenant
1. שׁדי _shaday_, Shaddai, “Irresistible, able to destroy, and
by inference to make, Almighty.” שׁדד _shādad_ “be strong,
destroy.” This name is found six times in Gene...
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CHAPTER 17 THE FIFTH COMMUNICATION AND THE COVENANT REPEATED
_ 1. The communication and Abram worships (Genesis 17:1)_
2. The enlarged promise (Genesis 17:4)
3. The covenant sign (Genesis 17:9)
4....
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GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section
the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong
reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
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Circumcision the Token of the Covenant
9. _thou shalt keep_ "Keep" in the sense of "observe": the reverse is
to "break" (Genesis 17:14) the covenant. Notice the sing, "thou," and
the plur. "ye shall k...
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_shall be circumcised_ The rite of circumcision, which is here given
as the symbol of the covenant with Abraham and his seed, was no new
institution. In Abraham's time it was already a well-known prac...
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DISCOURSE: 27
CIRCUMCISION OF ABRAHAM
Genesis 17:9. _And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations. This
is my covenant, which...
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3. _The Covenant-Sign_ (Genesis 17:9-14)
9 And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my
covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.
10 This is my covenant,...
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_THIS IS MY COVENANT, WHICH YE SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND THY
SEED AFTER THEE; EVERY MAN CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED._
Every man-child ... circumcised. This was the sign in the Old
T...
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THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION
This chapter is from the Priestly document, of which it shows marked
characteristics: see preface to Genesis 15....
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THIS IS MY COVENANT] i.e. this is the sign of the covenant, viz.
circumcision. Not§ that both parties undertake obligations here as
contrasted with the covenant in Genesis 15.
CIRCUMCISION] (lit. 'cut...
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To ‘*circumcise’ means to cut the skin from the end of a male
person’s sex part. When someone has done that to a person, that
person is ‘*circumcised’. It is a sign that God has made a firm
agreement...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 17
GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH ABRAHAM
V1 When Abram was 99 years of age, the *Lord appeared to him. The
*Lord said to him, ‘I am God who can do...
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SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED. — It is stated by Herodotus (Book ii. 104)
that the Egyptians were circumcised, and that the Syrians in Palestine
confessed that they learned this practice from the Egyptians. Or...
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זֹ֣את בְּרִיתִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֣ר
תִּשְׁמְר֗וּ בֵּינִי֙ וּ...
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THE COVENANT SEALED
Genesis 17:1
ACCORDING to the dates here given fourteen years had passed since
Abram had received any intimation of God's will regarding him. Since
the covenant had been made some...
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GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 17:1
At least thirteen years had passed since the promise of Isaac was
first made. Years of sorrow and discipline, but God had not forgotten.
Always under such cir...
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This chapter gives the account of the fifth appearance of God to Abram
in which a divine covenant was made. At this point his name was
changed from Abram, which means exalted father, to Abraham, which...
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CIRCUMCISION AND THE PROMISE
The act of circumcision was a part of the covenant which included the
land promise (17:1-14). It should be noted the giving of the land was
unconditional, but retaining it...
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(c) This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and
thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
(c) Circumcision is called the covenant, because it signifi...
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart,
Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall
Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
It is profitable to o...
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We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the
trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine
mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
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10._Every man-child among you shall be circumcised _Although God
promised alike to males and females, what he afterwards sanctioned by
circumcision, he nevertheless consecrated, in one sex, the whole...
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In chapter 17 we have a fresh revelation of the Lord to Abram, and, I
think, are upon higher and holier ground. It is not here calling, or
worship, or the world and victory over it in Lot (12-14 [1]),...
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THIS [IS] MY COVENANT,.... The token of it, for the promise itself was
given before, which is more properly the covenant; circumcision is so
called in an improper sense, being only the sign of it:
WH...
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This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy
seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Ver. 10. _Every man-child among you._] Infants were circumcised...
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Gen. 17:10. _Circumcision_ signified or represented that mortification
or the denying of our lusts, that is the condition of obtaining the
blessings of the covenant. Totally denying any lust, is repre...
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The token of the covenant is circumcision, for the sake of which, the
covenant is itself called the _covenant of circumcision, Acts 7:8_. It
is here said to be the covenant which Abraham and his seed...
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[ABRAHAM.]
1 God reneweth the Couenant.
5 Abram his name is changed, in token of a greater blessing.
10 Circumcision is instituted.
15 Sarai her name is changed, and she blessed.
17 Izsaac is pro...
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This is My covenant, which ye shall keep between Me and you and thy
seed after thee: Every man child among you shall be circumcised. So
circumcision, the operation by which the foreskin of the flesh i...
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Circumcision Instituted...
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SIXTH SECTION
_Abram and the repeated Promise of God. The name Abram changed to
Abraham. The personal Covenant of Faith, now a Covenant Institution
for him, his Household and his Seed. Circumcision....
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THE COVENANT AND ITS SIGN - CIRCUMCISION
Another thirteen years passes before the Lord's appearing to Abram now
at the age of 99 years. In Chapter 15:1 He had told Abram, "I am your
shield, your excee...
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7-14 The covenant of grace is from everlasting in the counsels of it,
and to everlasting in the consequences of it. The token of the
covenant was circumcision. It is here said to be the covenant whic...
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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
_...
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Here we have God's remedy for Abraham's failure set before us." And
when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto
Abram, and said unto him, I am the _ Almighty God:_ walk before _ m...
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Genesis 17:10 covenant H1285 keep H8104 (H8799) descendants H2233 you
H310 child H2145 circumcised H4135 (H8736)
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‘And God said to Abraham, “And as for you, you will keep my
covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
This is my covenant that you shall keep between me and you and your
seed...
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CONTENTS: The revelation of God. Abram's name changed. Covenant
confirmed. Circumcision established. Promise of Isaac.
CHARACTERS: God, Abram, Isaac, Sarah, Ishmael.
CONCLUSION: When man is in the d...
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Genesis 17:1. _The Almighty God._ The original word Shaddai is often
rendered, All-sufficient. He is so called because he sheds down
blessings as the rain.
Genesis 17:2. _My covenant;_ so called becau...
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_Every man child among you shall be circumcised_
THE COVENANT SEAL
I. ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE.
1. It taught the natural depravity of man.
2. It taught the necessity of purification.
3. It taug...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 17:1 Thirteen years after the birth of
Ishmael, the Lord appears to Abram and announces that he will
establish an eternal covenant with Abram and his offspring. Abram will
beco...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 17:10 Circumcision was not a Hebrew
invention. For example, it was used in Egypt as an act of ritual
purity.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 17:10. My Covenant.] The outward sign is here called the
Covenant, for it is the seal set upon the Covenant. The same mode of
expression is used in Acts 7:8. Also, in the Lord...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 17:1
AND WHEN ABRAM WAS NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE—consequently an
interval of thirteen years had elapsed since the birth of Ishmael; the
long delay on the part of God being probabl...
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Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old (Genesis 17:1),
So this is another thirteen years later.
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am Almighty God
(Genesis 17:1);
El Shaddai. So her...
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Every. Genesis 17:11 Genesis 34:15 Exodus 4:25 Exodus 12:48 Deute
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ABRAM AND SARAI GREATLY ENLARGED
Genesis 17:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have passed by the sixteenth chapter of Genesis, it behooves us,
therefore, to give some striking suggestions relative to Sarai a...