Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
Download the book in PDF, ePub, Kindle for a complete version.
wisdom therefore to consider, not so much who
speaks as what is spoken.
2. God's commands consult our comfort and
honour much better than our own contrivances
do. It would have been much more for Sarai's
interest if Abram had kept to the rule of God's
law instead of being guided by her foolish
projects; but we often do ill for ourselves.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained
me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
She owned God's providence in this affliction:
The Lord hath restrained me from bearing. It
seems that she had respect for God's promise,
which could not be accomplished without
issue. She fails by limiting God's power to the
common order of nature, as though God could
not give her children in her old age. Note,
(1.) As, where children are, it is God that gives
them (Ge 33:5), so where they are wanted it is
he that withholds them, Ge 30:2.
(2.) It becomes us to acknowledge this, that we
may bear it, and improve it, as an affliction of
his ordering for wise and holy ends.