EXPOSITION
GENESIS 16:1
NOW SARAI ABRAM'S WIFE BARE HIM NO CHILDREN (literally, _bare not to
him, _notwithstanding the promise; the barrenness of Sarai being
introduced as the point of departure for the ensuing narrative, and
emphasized as the cause or occasion of the subsequent transaction):
AND S... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION
GENESIS 16:7
AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. _Maleach Jehovah_, elsewhere styled
_Maleach Elohim _(Genesis 21:17; Genesis 31:11); supposed but wrongly
to be a creature angel, for the reasons chiefly
(1) that the term angel commonly designates a class of spiritual
beings (Genesis 19:1; Genesi... [ Continue Reading ]