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thing of course, to intimate that the children of the promise are growing children. See Lu 1:80, Lu
2:40. Those that are born of God shall increase of God, Col 2:19. He grew so as not always to need milk, but was able to bear strong meat, and then he was weaned. See Heb 5:13, 14. And then it was that Abraham made a great feast for his friends and neighbours, in thankfulness to God for his mercy to him. He made this feast, not on the day that Isaac
was born, that would have been too great a disturbance to Sarah; nor on the day that he was circumcised, that would have been too great a diversion from the ordinance; but on the day that he was weaned, because God's blessing upon the nursing of children, and the preservation of them throughout the perils of the infant age, are signal
instances of the care and tenderness of the divine providence, which ought to be acknowledged, to its praise. See Ps 22:9, 10, Ho 11:1.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne
unto Abraham, mocking.
Ishmael himself gave the occasion by some affronts he gave to Isaac his little brother, some think on the day that Abraham made the feast for joy that Isaac
was safely weaned, which the Jews say was not till he was three years old, others say five. Sarah herself was an eye-witness of the abuse: she saw the son of the Egyptian mocking (Ge 21:9), mocking Isaac, no doubt, for it is said, with reference to this (Ga 4:29), that he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit. Ishmael was aware of