i ;':"..,1AY'®l//l'll ! 111'WJt.///%//ír óZ GENESIS XXI. feed be called: they (hall be named Ifaak, not of I[macl: that is , (as Paul inferreth) they which are the children of the fefh, theft are not the children Owl; but the children of the promifr, are counted for the feed: Rom. 9.7, 8. Seed to thee , may allo be read, feed of tbee,that is,thy feed: for the Scripture fome- time putteth one for another , as clippies to thee, Mar. z. 18. is the fame that clippies oftbee, or thy difciples, Mat.9. 1 4. From this limitation of Abra- hams feed to !taxi{ , the Jewes do reckon none for Abrahams, but the Ifraelites : as in their Canons they fay, Who fo voweth concerning Abrahams feed, ïr free from Ifmaels and Efaus fans, and it not bound, but touching Ifraelites: as itisfail, far inIfaak(hall fedbe call alto thee : and loelfaakfaidte Jaakob And God give thee she bleffmg of Abraham; Gen. 28.4. Maimony, treat. of Vowes, chap.9. fe &.21. 13 Verf. 13. male of him] Hebr.pul him unto a nation, fo verf.28. Compare Gen. 57. 20. thy feed]thy finnm,according to the fled: though not after the proniife, as Ifaakwas. 14 Verf. 14. bread] Sometime bread is ufed for all food,as in Mar.6.36. compared with Mat.14.r 5. Ffal. 78. zo. if it be not fo here, the Scripture would note the great hardnes and mifery which they null iodure that are call out of the Lords inheritance. and the child] to west, he gave un- to ber, hee being now about 18. yeeres of age : fo calling himhis first borne fon, with her, out of his boule. the wilderne ,] the way towards ../Egypt, where there was no way, no food, no wa- ters, no inhabitants : thus were they expofed to many milèries : fee Deut.8.15. Jer. 2.6. Contra - riwife, Ifaaley children were led and guided of God, through that great and fearfull wilder- neffe, wherein Ifmacl and his mother wandred: Deut.32. 10,1 /,I2. Exo. s 3.2 1,22. Our Engli(u Word wikkrneffe , figúitieth a place where mesegoe wilds, that Is, goe affray, or wander, as Agar here did; and fo in Job 12.24. Pfa1.¡07.4,40. the like is fpoken. In Hebrew it is called. Midbar, as being without order , a place not for men to dwell in ; but onely for beats, who there mull alfo be led and governed. See Exod.3. 1,18. 15 Verf. r 5. fbe eafl the child] that is,.thee left hint being fiche, anditinting for third. The flare of fuch as are without Chri(t is hereby relembled, Efay 65. r3. but they that drinke of his waters; (hall never thirft , for it (hall be in them a well f water, fßringing up unto everlafiing life, Joh. 4. 14. (hrube] or trees, as theChaldee expounds it. The Greeke faith , under a firne-tree. 26 Vers 6. the death,]Tisis (heweth the exteemi tie that they were conic into in the defart , who ere - while had meat and drinke enough in Abrahams home, now ready to perish for thir4: God fo cha(ìening their former infolencie. Alike exam- ple is of the prodigall fon , who almoftdied for hunger, when the fervants in his fathers houfe had breaden0trgh, Luke 15. 14,17. for the man that wanderetb out of the way of underflanding, fhall re- maine in the congregation of the dead, Prov. 21.16. 17 Verf. 17. there where] in Greeke, from the plate where he is : that is in this defolate wildernetfe, where he lyeth,peritt:ing, forfaken of all. Com- pare herewith Gods promifes to his people in miferie. Dent.4.27,-30. & Pfal.107.4,5,6. And thus God remembreth his former premisès,Gen. 17.20. and 16. 0. &c. Verf. r 9. the face a well] which, though it were there before, yet the Caw not, her eyes beiughol- den till they were opened of God, (as in Luke 24,16.31.) By fìntilitnde of wafers breaking out in the milderreep, and drawing waters out of the wells of falvation, the Scripture denoteth the fpirituall graces of the Gofpel , communicated with the poore aftlié'ted, Eby 35. 6 . and 12.3. Verf 20. God was] The Chaldee paraphrafeth, 20 doe word oft he Lord war a bilge to the lad. fhoóter with bow] or, an archer : and fo confegssently , a wari- our : for (hooting with bow, was ufed in battels with men, Gen.49. 23,24. & 48.22. and thus the oracle wasfulfilled, that he should be a wild man, and have his hand againfl every man, Gen. r 6. 1 2. Ver.2I. of Pharan] or Parafi : a w ilderneffe next adjoyning to the defart of Sinai, through which the Ifraelites journied as they went from 1Egype to Canaan, Nuns. r o.12. and 13. 5,4. Deut. 33. 2. Habbak. 3.3. Verf 22. Abimeleeh] King of Gerar in Palefi 22 na: fee Gen. 20. 2. Prince] that is, chiefs Cap - mine: as the Creche calleth hint Archiffrategos,. Cbiefe- leader of the Amide. God it] the word of the Lordis fir an helps to thee , faith the Chaldee pa- raphraft: fo in the verfe following , for God, he ufeth the word (1'the Lord. . Verf. 23. ifibou fhalt (e] chat is, that thou wilt not lye : as Pfal. 89.36. an iniperfe& fpeech, where an imprecation is underftood, which fometime is expreffed in part; as in Ruth 1. 17. the Lord dcc fo to me and more alfa, if, 6°'e. For an oath is both a taking of the Lord towitnesfe, that which one fweareth and to punish if any violate his faith: both which Paulexpretfedwhen he Cware, Icall Godfor a witnefi upon (or againfl) eny foule, 2 Cor. 1. 23. See before,Gen 14. z 3.and 26.29. The Greek forlying tranflateth hurting,or wronging.It meaneth falfe and deceitful! dealing contrary to the cove- nant now to be made between them, fee Pf.44.18. Ver. a 5.a srell]which was of great rife and worth in that dry country,as the South parts of Canaam are noted to be, in Judg. 1. 15. Hereupon grew that between lfàak and .the Phili {lines7 for wells of water, Gen.26.1 8,20,á 1. The Greeke for Well, trantlateth wells, as being many : and indeed Abraham had there moewells then one, as appea- reth by Gen. 26. 15, 18. and it is ufuall in Scrip- ture, to put one for many, as is ohferved,on Gen. 3. z. and 4.20. Albeit the 30. verle ffieweth ra- ther one fpeciall to be here meant; where alto' the Greeke fpeakcth of one. Verf. 31. Beer- fheba] by interpretation, the well of the oath , as the Greeke tranlateth it, and the words following do confirme : or,tbe well of feven; becaufe of the feven Jambes forementioned,for She- ba ufually fignifieth feven, And Sbel stab, an oath. See allo Gen. 26.33. they fware] or , were fworne : for fwearing is alwaies exprelled in Hebrew , in the 29 2I 23 25 32 ASI,./.%//G/11614111111V1A NW" - .-:.
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