A Bible Dictionary for Sunday Schools and FamiliesGeneral Books, 2013 - 214 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...ninety, and God having appointed him to be the seed from whom should spring the people of his covenant and the Redeemer of the world. At the time of his weaning, Ishmael mocked at him: if Isaac was two years old, Ishmael w: u sixteen. Sarah insisted on sending away Hagar, the bond-woman, and her son. Abraham was reluctant, but God bade him do it, because Isaac alone should be his heir and the father of that portion of his posterity who should be separated from all other nations. The age of the "lad" at the time Abraham was required to offer him on Moriah is not known; he was old enough to carry up the mountain the wood for the burnt-offering, and the narrative warrants the inference that he consented in faith and resignation to his own death. He was a type of Christ, whom the Father did not spare, and who became obedient unto death, and who was raised up from the dead, as Isaac was in a figure. Isaac had only one wife, Rebecca, his cousin from Mesopotamia. He was a quiet, retired, meditative man; his virtues and faults were of a passive kind. Esau, the robust and active hunter, was his favorite son and chosen heir. But God's purpose was different, and Rebecca, who knew this, and preferred Jacob, contrived, by a deceitful trick, to secure the blessing for the younger son. All the parties seem to have been in part blameworthy: Isaac for resisting the divine choice, Esau for desiring to retain the birthright he had sold, Rebecca and Jacob for seeking to accomplish by guile what God would surely have brought about. Isaac died at the extreme age of one hundred and eighty years. (Gen. xvii. 15.21; xviii. 9-15; xxi.; xxii.; xxiv.xxviii.; xxxv. 27-29: Heb. xi. 17-20.) l-sa'iah (saied by Jehovah). Little is known of his life. His... |
