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the great change in his prospects, and under the impulse of irritated or resentful feelings, in which
he was probably joined by his mother, treated the young heir with derision and probably some violence. Mocking - He derided God's promise made to Isaac which the apostle calls persecution (Ga 4:29).
Ishmael is here called the son of the Egyptian, because, as some think, the 400 years' affliction of the seed of Abraham by the Egyptians began now,
and was to be dated hence, Ge 15:13. She saw him playing with Isaac, so the LXX., and, in play, mocking him. Ishmael was fourteen years older than Isaac; and, when children are together, the elder should be careful and tender of the younger: but it argued a very base and sordid disposition in Ishmael to be abusive to a child that was no way a
match for him. Note,
1. God takes notice of what children say and do in
their play, and will reckon with them if they say or do amiss, though their parents do not.
2. Mocking is a great sin, and very provoking to God.
3. There is a rooted remaining enmity in the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman. The children of promise must expect to be mocked. This