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Sarah was a person of quality, was aged; nursing might be thought prejudicial of herself, or to the
child, or to both; she had choice of nurses, no doubt, in her own family: and yet she would do her duty in this matter; and her daughters the good wives are while they thus do well, 1Pe 3:5,6. See La 4:3.
(2.) How she expressed her wonder: "Who would have said it? The thing was so highly improbable, so near to impossible, that if anyone but God had
said it we could not have believed it." Note, God's favours to his covenant-people are such as surpass both their own and others' thoughts and expectations. Who could imagine that God should do so much for those that deserve so little, nay, for those that deserve so ill? See Eph 3:20,2Sa 7:18, 19. Who would have said that God should send his
Son to die for us, his Spirit to sanctify us, his angels to attend us? Who would have said that such great sins should be pardoned, such mean services accepted, and such worthless worms taken into covenant and communion with the great and holy God?
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
A short account of Isaac's infancy: The child grew, Ge 21:8. Special notice is taken of this, though a