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their godly parents that tread in the steps of
their obedience.
4 and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will
give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
5 because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
Isaac had now laid aside all thoughts of going
to Egypt, and, in obedience to the heavenly
vision, sets up his staff in Gerar, the country in
which he was born (Ge 26:6), yet there he
enters into temptation, the same temptation that
his good father had been once and again
surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny
his wife, and to give out that she was his sister.
Observe,
How he sinned, Ge 26:7. Because his wife was
handsome, he fancied the Philistines would
find some way or other to take him off, that
some of them might marry her; and therefore
she must pass for his sister. It is an
unaccountable thing that both these great and
good men should be guilty of so strange a piece
of dissimulation, by which they so much
exposed both their own and their wives'
reputation. But we see,