Genesis 18:14

too hard for the Lord Lit., as marg, wonderful. The LXX rendering μὴ ἀδυνατεῖ παρὰ τῷ θεῷ ῥῆμα finds an echo in St Luke 1:37. Compare Jeremiah 32:17, "Ah! Lord God! behold, thou hast made, the heaven and the earth by thy great power …: there is nothing too hard for thee."

He who thus speaks of Jehovah, is Himself Jehovah. Cf. Genesis 16:11; Genesis 19:13.