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(2.) When Sarah received the promise she laughed with distrust and diffidence. Note, When God gives us the mercies we began to despair of we ought to remember with sorrow and shame our sinful distrusts of God's power and promise, when we were in pursuit of them.
(3.) Isaac was himself, afterwards, laughed at by Ishmael (Ge 21:9), and perhaps his name bade him
expect it. Note, God's favourites are often the world's laughing-stocks.
(4.) The promise which he was not only the son,
but the heir of, was to be the joy of all the saints in all ages, and that which would fill their mouths with laughter.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as
God had commanded him.
He circumcised him, Ge 21:4. The covenant being
established with him, the seal of the covenant was administered to him; and though a bloody ordinance, and he a darling, yet it must not be omitted, no, nor deferred beyond the eighth day. God had kept time in performing the promise, and therefore Abraham must keep time in obeying the
precept.
5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was
born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear
will laugh with me.