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(1.) Foul temptations may have very fair
pretences, and be coloured with that which is
very plausible.
(2.) Fleshly wisdom, as it anticipates God's
time of mercy, so it puts us out of God's way.
(3.) This would be happily prevented if we
would ask counsel of God by the word and by
prayer, before we attempt that which is
important and suspicious. Herein Abram was
wanting; he married without God's consent.
This persuasion came not of him that called
him.
Hagar is a type of the law "which gendereth to
bondage" Galatians 4:24, 25.
3 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
"Wife" is here used to describe an inferior,
though not degrading, relation, in countries
where polygamy prevails. In the case of these
female slaves, who are the personal property of
his lady, being purchased before her marriage
or given as a special present to her, no one can
become the husband's secondary wife without
her mistress consent or permission. This usage
seems to have prevailed in patriarchal times;