A. C. 1892. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. SECTION XVII. Temptation of Abraham." GENESIS XXII. VER. 1-20. 1871. q Heb. xi. 17. 1 And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, *Hob. Behold * Behold, here I am. 736. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offer- A.C. 1871. ing, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. ' It was not by means of prophecy alone that the Almighty directed the attention of mankind to the future Messiah; the types of the Old Testament were rendered subservient to the same wise and useful purpose. A type has been well defined, to be "a prefigurative action or occurrence, in which one event, person, or circumstance is intended to represent another similar to it in certain respects, but future and distant."-"To constitute one thing the type of another, (remarks the learned Bishop Marsh) something more is wanted than mere resemblance. The former must not only resemble the latter, but it must have been designed so to resemble it, in its original institution."-" And there is no other rule by which we can distinguish a real from a pretended type, than that of Scripture itself." For these reasons I have not insisted on the resemblances, between the Messiah and many of the eminent characters in the Old Testament. Though it is both a pleasant and profitable employment to discover allusions to the Son of God in every page of Scripture, we are by no means justified in asserting that one person or event, is undoubtedly the type of another; unless, as in the instances of Adam, Abel, Noah, the passover, and other chief institutions of the levitical law, we can shew from Scripture, that the resemblance was originally designed, and was not merely a coincidence. The sacrifice of Isaac by his father was so evidently typical of the sacrifice of Christ, that there can be no doubt of the design which was to be answered by this otherwise mysterious event. On the very spot where Christ was afterwards crucified, Abraham is commanded to slay his son. It is needless to recapitulate the coincidences between the sacrifice of Isaac and of Christ: they are to be found in every commentary. That the meaning of all the circumstances of this mystical sacrifice of his son was revealed to Abraham, that he learnt from them that the promised Messiah should in like manner bear the wood of the cross, and die for mankind, and that Abraham, in obeying the divine command, rejoiced to see the day of Christ, and he then saw it and was glad, is well argued by Bishop Warburton. Vide Bp. Van Mildert's Bampton Lectures. page 237•Bp. Marsh's Lectures, part 4, page 113 to 115-Warburton's Div. Legat. v. 6, s. 5-M'Ewen on the Types. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, * Here am I, my son. And he Heb. Behold said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb + Or, kid. for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood me. in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the r James ii 21. altar upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place + Jeho-That is the vah-jireh : as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. 15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : pull sce, or provide.. PA. CV. 9. Ecclus. xliv. 21. Luke i. 72. Heb. vi. 13. 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea § shore; and thy seed shall, Heb. lip. possess the gate of his enemies; A. C. 1871. t Ch. xii. 3. & xviii. 18. Ecclus. xliv. 22. Acts iii. 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham 25. Gal. iii. 8. dwelt at Beer-sheba. 1850. * Heb. a prince of God. + Heb. full money.. ‡ Heb. ears. SECTION XVIII. Death and Burial of Sarah. GENESIS XXIII. 1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6 Hear us, my lord: thou art * a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his hee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for tas much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ‡ audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. 12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. 13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, A.C. 1859. 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth. SECTION ΧΙΧ. Family of Rebekah. GENESIS XXII. VER. 20, TO THE END. 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; 21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat * Rebekah: these eight Milcah * Called, did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. SECTION XX. Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah. GENESIS XXIV. 1 And Abraham was old, and * well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. Rom. ix. 10. 1856. * Heb. gone into days. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, "Put, I pray thee, u Ch. xlvii. 29; thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of A.C. 1856. heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: x Ch. xii. 7. & xiii. 15. & xv. 18. & xxvi. 4. * Or, and. + Heb. that women which draw water go forth. y ver. 43. ‡ Heb. good of counte. пансе. 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again. 7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, * Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. 8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; * for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time † that women go out to draw water. 12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water : 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was ‡ very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. |