Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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1. That very good men have sometimes been
guilty of very great faults and follies. Let those
therefore that stand take heed lest they fall, and
those that have fallen not despair of being
helped up again.
2. That there is an aptness in us to imitate even
the weaknesses and infirmities of those we
have a value for. We have need therefore to
keep our foot, lest, while we aim to tread in the
steps of good men, we sometimes tread in their
by-steps.
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, she is
my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
How he was detected, and the cheat
discovered, by the king himself. Abimelech
(not the same that was in Abraham's days, Ge
20:1-18, for this was nearly 100 years after
that, but this was the common name of the
Philistine kings, as Cæsar of the Roman
emperors) saw Isaac more familiar and
pleasant with Rebekah than he knew he would
be with his sister (Ge 26:8): he saw him