Chapter 16:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Revelation Exodus
Genesis 16
The
covenant of the law in Hagar
Abram seeking, at Sarah's
instigation, to anticipate the will of God and the
accomplishment of the promise in its time, we have the
covenant of the law in Hagar, the source of distress and
disquietude. God, however, takes care of the seed
according to the flesh. The application of this as a
figure is clear from Galatians 4. The pride of man under
the law is marked in Hagar's spirit, yet her son cannot
be heir. The haste of man, who will not wait God's time,
will not wait on Him as to means of accomplishment (so
was it with Jacob for the blessing) is full of moral
warning to us; it is ever the source of disquietude and
sorrow. Hagar, too, was an Egyptian—a remembrance,
also, of the want of faith in Abram. The law and flesh,
and indeed sin, ever go together (see John 8: 34-36); and
in connection with the unbelief of nature, that is,
Egypt.
Order of chapters
12 to 16
As regards the order of
these chapters, I may add, 12, 13, 14 go together, and
are dependent on the double manifestation of God to
Abram; first, to call him, and then in Canaan. We have
power, failure, return, and enduring heavenly faith
contrasted with worldliness, and thereto the display of
earthly power attached, to that faith, closing with
victory; God possessor of heaven and earth, and
Melchisedec.
Sarah's fleshly
attempt to secure the promise, and its failure
Though chapter 15 stands
alone as a whole, chapter 16 is so far connected with it,
that it is the fleshly attempt on Sarah's part to have
the seed which was assured by the word of the Lord to
Abram in the beginning of chapter 15. Here all is
failure; but the purposes of God will be accomplished
according to promise, and not of the flesh and man's
will.
Chapter 16:
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