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sporting with her, or laughing; it is the same
word with that from which Isaac had his name.
He was rejoicing with the wife of his youth, Pr
5:18. It becomes those in that relation to be
pleasant with one another, as those that are
pleased with one another. Nowhere may a man
more allow himself to be innocently merry than
with his own wife and children. Abimelech
charged him with the fraud (Ge 26:9), showed
him how frivolous his excuse was and what
might have been the bad consequences of it (Ge
26:10), and then, to convince him how
groundless and unjust his jealousy of them
was, took him and his family under his
particular protection, forbidding any injury to
be done to him or his wife upon pain of death,
Ge 26:11. Note,
1. A lying tongue is but for a moment. Truth is
the daughter of time; and, in time, it will out.
2. One sin is often the inlet to many, and
therefore the beginnings of sin ought to be
avoided.
3. The sins of professors shame them before
those that are without.