78 Sarah r.1kred. I2 13 15 t6 17 18 MIE/her XCAMMIENEMEIN GENES IS XX. Surely thereis no feare of God in this place: and they will kill me for my wives fake.And et truly, (hee is my fifer, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mo- ther: and Thee became my wife. And it was when they, even God, caufedme to wander from my fathers houle; then I Paid unto her, this is thy kindnc(fe which thou (halt doe unto mee: at every place whither we (hall come , thou of me, hee is my brother. And bimelech tooke fheepeand oxen,and men - fervants, and women - fervants; and gave unto Abraham : and reftored to him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech Paid, Be- hold my land is before thee : dwell thou in that which is good in thine des. And unto Sarah he laid, Behold I havegiven a thou - fandfhekels of filver to thy brother;behold hee is to thee a covering of the eies; unto all which are with thee : and all that (tboat mai/i de) rebuked. And Abraham prayed unto God : and Ghd healed Abimelech , and his wife, and his women - fervants , and they bare - children. For Jehovah had do- fing doled -up , every vvombe , in the houle of Abimelech: becaule of Sarah, Abrahams wife. linnotations. IOurneyed or, removed, to weet , from the Okes of J. Maire, Gen. 18.1. country] or, land of the South ; that is, the South part of the'land of Ca- naan: the Gen. 1 2.9. Kadefh] fee Gen. 16.14.7. Gerar] a country of the Philillines, in the Southerne parts in the land of Canaan , fee Gen. 10.19. Hither Ifaai came afterward to fojourne, for famine, sen. 26.1. 2 Ver 2. of Sarah] the Hebrew el which properly lignifieth unto, is ufed for of or concerning, and is fo tranflated by the Greeke, here andJer.27.19. and fo the Greeke pros, in like manner, Heb. 1.7. and 4.13. Or if we reade it, unto Sarah, the meaning is, that together with her,both he and the faid it: as after in vert 5. is manifelled. See thelike done before, in Gen.' 2. 11,12,13. Vert 2. Abimelech] by interpretation, Father- King: a common title of the Kings of Paleflina, as Pharaoh was of the Kings of .Ægtpt: fee Gen.26.1. Pfal.34. 1. For Kings Ihould he Fathers to their countries : fo rulers are called fatbers,2 Kin.5.13. Job 29.1 6. and 1 Sans. 12.15. where your fathers is tranflated in Greeke,yourKing: fee,Gen.4.2o. Verf.3. God came] the Chaldeefaith, word came 3 from the face of God. This fetteth forth Gods care for his : hee fef red too man to doe them wrong, but re- proved Kings fortheir fakes, Pala 05.14. a dreame] which is an imagination that the mind of man conceiveth in fleepe. Dreames natural], arifing irons the temperature of the body ; or affeftions W/ 0/1l1 of the mind, are many,and have their vanities and -- deceits, Ecclef. 5.7. Efay 29.7, 8. But dreames fitpernaturall fent of God, as here, or by his An- gels,as Matth.2.13. are to be regarded : for God by them frguifieth what he would , or what men Ihoulddoe, Gen. 41.25. Job 43. 14,15, 16. &c, Dreames alto are fometimes by the lying fpirit of Satan : which are not to be beleeved or re- garded, Zach. Io. z. Dent. , 3. 1, 2, 3. see alfo Geo1 37.5. a deadman] that is, fhafrf #rely die. But under filch threats, conditions often are implied : as here if chop deliver not a woman. See Ezek. 33. 14,15 Vert 4. come - neere] that is , ]yen with her : being flayed by fickneffe, as it feemech by veri. 17. the Greeke faith, touched her not : the Hebrewalto, in verle 6. So Pala ufeth the phrafe of touching wo- man, r Cor.7.I. and Solomon,Prov.6.29. jail nation] fearing,as it feemeth,wrath upon his peo- ple allb,verl9. as often commeth to pafle for the Princes hnnes. So for Daniels finne,a plague came on his people, I Chron.2 t. 14,17.Or he calleth his family a nation: which was now vifited of God, vest. 17, 18. Verf..5.pe,f ilium] or,integritie, fmpltdtie, fenceritie. The Chaldee interprets it , truth; the Greeke,a pare heart. It is oppofed to bypocrifie. inno- mice of my bands] or, eleannef of my palmes : the palmes of the bands are named , as wherein filthi- nefre might be hidden : fo purging himfelfe, even from fecret crime. Verf.6. with-held] the Greeke tranflateth,lared thee.It feemetllGods chaftilementrellrained him, 'verf.17. and fo hee was not able to doe the evil], which otherwife naturally hee could, and was prone unto. from /liming] the Greeke faith, that thins jiouldef not firme. As God, for Abrahams fake, with-held Abimelech front the fart fo refpe&ing the integritie of the Kings heart, he kept him al- fo from the finne. gave thee not] that is,let,or fn,= fered thee not as the Greeke tranflateth. Giving is often tiled for fufering, as Gen. 31.7. Exod.3. I9. Plál., 6.1o. but it is more then bare fufferance, as implying an aftion allo on Gods part, who gi- veth means to flay from evil] , or fendetbdeluf¿ons, when fo it pleafeth him, as 2 Thef:2.7. Verf.7.a Propbet] therefore doe him no harme, Pfa.105.15. A Prophet in Hebrew Nabi,inGreek Pr/beta , from which we have the word Prophet, fo named of fpealing, interpreting, or uttering words and oracles that conte from God,Deut.i 8 15,16. 18. as of feeing or receiving them byvifions,fuch were named Seery' Sam.9.9.So Mofes interpreter is called his Prophet, Exod. 7. I. and all interpre- ters of the Scriptures, s Cor., 4.29. In fpeciall, a Prophet was one indued with the fpirit of God, and could foretell things to come, Dent. 18.22. Pfal. 74.9. Jer.29. 15. Such are called, hob, men of God, which fak ar thy were moved by the holy Ghofi, 2 Pet. 1.20. The Hebrew Doítors fay, It is one of the fundationr a the Law, to km that God maketb the formes of men to prophefre: and prophefe refrdeth not , but in a man that it great in wifdome, migixie in his vertuous qualities , fe that his la ions overcome him not. 4 5 6 7
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