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The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken. See also: Psalms 12:6Genesis 18:10Genesis 18:14Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. See also: Galatians 4:22Hebrews 11:11Genesis 18:10Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. See also: Genesis 17:19Genesis 21:6Romans 9:7Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. See also: Acts 7:8Exodus 12:48Genesis 17:10-12Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. See also: Genesis 17:17Genesis 17:1Romans 4:19Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” See also: Psalms 126:2Isaiah 54:1Genesis 17:17She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” See also: Genesis 18:11-12Isaiah 66:8Ephesians 3:10The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. See also: 1 Samuel 1:22Hosea 1:82 Samuel 3:20Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. See also: Galatians 4:29Genesis 16:15Galatians 4:22Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.” See also: John 8:35Galatians 4:22-311 John 2:19The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. See also: Hebrews 12:11Genesis 17:18Matthew 10:37God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac. See also: Hebrews 11:18Romans 9:7-8Genesis 17:19I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.” See also: Genesis 16:10Genesis 17:20Genesis 21:18Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. See also: Psalms 107:4Genesis 25:6Psalms 119:60The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. See also: Psalms 63:1Jeremiah 14:32 Kings 3:9She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. See also: Isaiah 49:151 Kings 3:26Genesis 29:11God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. See also: Genesis 16:11Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.” See also: Genesis 21:13Genesis 16:10Genesis 17:20God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink. See also: Numbers 22:312 Kings 6:17-20Isaiah 35:5-6God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer. See also: Genesis 28:15Genesis 39:21Genesis 16:12He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. See also: 1 Samuel 25:1Numbers 13:3Numbers 13:26At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do. See also: Genesis 26:26Genesis 26:28Joshua 3:7Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.” See also: Joshua 2:12Genesis 20:14Jeremiah 4:2Abraham said, “I will swear.” See also: Hebrews 6:16Romans 12:18Genesis 14:13Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. See also: Genesis 26:15-22Matthew 18:15Genesis 13:7Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.” See also: 2 Kings 5:20-24Genesis 13:7Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. See also: Proverbs 18:16Genesis 14:22-23Galatians 3:15Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?” See also: Exodus 12:26Genesis 33:81 Samuel 15:14He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.” See also: Genesis 31:52Joshua 22:27-28Joshua 24:27Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there. See also: Genesis 26:33Genesis 21:142 Samuel 17:11So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. See also: Genesis 10:14Exodus 13:171 Samuel 18:3Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. See also: 1 Timothy 1:17Isaiah 40:28Psalms 90:2Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days. See also: Hebrews 11:9Genesis 20:1Hebrews 11:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 21:1
Ver. 1. Visited, either by the angel, C. xviii. 10, or by enabling her to have what he had promised, at the return of the season.
↑ 1Genesis 21:3
Ver. 3. Isaac. This word signifies laughter; (Ch.) or "he shall laugh," and be the occasion of joy to many, as S. John was.
Luke i. 14; and thus Sara seems to explain it, v. 6.
↑ 3Genesis 21:7
Ver. 7. Gave suck; a certain proof that the child was born of her. M. --- His old age, when both the parents were far advanced in years, v. 2. The mother being ninety at this time, would render the event most surprising. H.
↑ 7Genesis 21:8
Ver. 8. Weaned. S. Jerom says when he was five years old, though some said twelve. The age of men being prolonged, their infancy continued longer. One of the Machabees suckled her child three years. 2 Mac. vii. 27. 2 Par. xxxi. 16. C. ---
Feast. The life of the child being now considered in less danger. From the time of conception till this place, the husband kept at a distance from his wife. S. Clem. strom. ii . Samuel's mother made a feast or present when she weaned him. 1 K. i.
24. M.
↑ 8Genesis 21:9
Ver. 9. Playing, or persecuting, as S. Paul explains it. Gal. iv.
29. The play tended to pervert the morals of the young Isaac, whether we understand this term metsachak, as implying idolatry, or obscene actions, or fighting; in all which senses it is used in Scripture. See Ex. xxxii. 6. G. xxvi. 8. 2 K. ii. 14. M. ---
Ismael was 13 years older than Isaac; and took occasion, perhaps, from the feast, and other signs of preference given by his parents to the latter, to hate and persecute him, which Sara soon perceiving, was forced to have recourse to the expedient apparently so harsh, of driving Ismael and his mother from the house, that they might have an establishment of their own, and not disturb Isaac in the inheritance after the death of Abraham.
H. --- In this she was guided by a divine light; (M.) and not by any female antipathy, v. 12. Many of the actions of worldlings, which at first sight may appear innocent, have a natural and fatal tendency to pervert the morals of the just; and therefore, we must keep as much as possible at a distance from their society. --- With Isaac her son. Heb. has simply mocking, without mentioning what. But the sequel shews the true meaning; and this addition was found in some Bibles in the days of S. Jerom, as he testifies, and is expressed in the Sept.
H. --- Ismael was a figure of the synagogue, which persecuted the Church of Christ in her birth. D.
↑ 9Genesis 21:11
Ver. 11. For his son. He does not express any concern for Agar. But we cannot doubt but he would feel to part with her also. It was prudent to let both go together: and the mother had perhaps encouraged Ismael, at least by neglecting to punish or watch over him, and so deserved to share in his affliction.
↑ 11Genesis 21:14
Ver. 14. Bread and water. This seems a very slender allowance to be given by a man of Abraham's riches. But he might intend her to go only into the neighbourhood, where he would take care to provide for her. She lost herself in the wilderness, and thus fel into imminent danger of perishing. H. --- This divorce of Agar, and ejection of Ismael, prefigured the reprobation of the Jews.
↑ 14Genesis 21:17
Ver. 17. Of the boy, who was 17 years old, and wept at the approach of death. --- Fear not. Yare are under the protection of God, who will not abandon you, when all human succour fails; nor will he negelct his promises. G. 16. H.
↑ 17Genesis 21:20
Ver. 20. Wilderness, in Arabia Petrea. --- An archer, living on plunder. C.
↑ 20Genesis 21:22
Ver. 22. Abimelech, king of Gerara, who knew that Abraham was a prophet, and a favourite of God. G. xx. 7. H.
↑ 22Genesis 21:23
Ver. 23. Hurt me. Heb. "lie unto me, " or revolt and disturb the peace of my people.
↑ 23Genesis 21:24
Ver. 24. I will swear. The matter was of sufficient importance.
Abraham binds himself, but not his posterity, who by God's order fought against the descendants of this king.
↑ 24Genesis 21:27
Ver. 27. Gave them; thus rendering good for evil. D.
↑ 27Genesis 21:31
Ver. 31. Bersabee. That is, the well of oath; (Ch.) or "the well of the seven;" meaning the seven ewe-lambs set apart. M. ---
This precaution of Abraham, in giving seven lambs as a testimony that the well was dug by him, was not without reason. See G. xxvi. 15. C.
↑ 31Genesis 21:33
Ver. 33. A grove: in the midst of which was an altar, dedicated to the Lord God eternal; to testify that he alone was incapable of change. Thither Abraham frequently repaired, to thank God for all his favours. Temples were not probably as yet known in any part of the world. The ancient saints, Abraham, Isaac, Josue, &c. were pleased to shew their respect for God, and their love of retirement, by planting groves, and consecrating altars to the supreme Deity. If this laudable custom was afterwards perverted by the idolaters, and hence forbidden to God's people, we need not wonder. The best things may be abused; and when they become a source of scandal, we must avoid them. H. Jos. xxix. 26. Deut. xvi. 23. Jud. vi. 25.
↑ 33License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses