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21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites.
Genesis -16
Hagar and Ishmael
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
We have here the marriage of Abram to Hagar,
who was his secondary wife. Herein, though
some excuse may be made for him, he cannot
be justified, for from the beginning it was not
so; and, when it was so, it seems to have
proceeded from an irregular desire to build up
families for the speedier peopling of the world
and the church. Certainly it must not be so now.
Christ has reduced this matter to the first
institution, and makes the marriage union to be
between one man and one woman only. Now,
The maker of this match (would one think it?)
was Sarai herself: she said to Abram, I pray
thee, go in unto my maid, Ge 16:2. Note,
1. It is the policy of Satan to tempt us by our
nearest and dearest relations, or those friends
that we have an opinion of and an affection for.
The temptation is most dangerous when it is
sent by a hand that is least suspected: it is our