Genesis 25 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

¹ ^a Whiles Sarah was yet aliue.

¹ ^! Abraham taketh Keturah to wife, and getteth many children.

⁵ ^/ Ebr. all that he had.

⁶ ^d To auoyde the dissension that els might haue come because of the heritage.

⁶ ^b For by the vertue of Gods worde he had not onely Izhak, but begate many mo.

⁶ ^c Read {chap. 22,24}.

⁶ ^! Abraham giueth all his goods to Izhak.

⁸ ^e Hereby the ancients signified that man by deathe perished not wholy: but as the soules of the godlie liued after in perpetual joy, so the soules of the wicked in perpetual peine.

¹² ^! The genealogie of Ishmael.

¹³ ^/ Ebr. first borne.

¹⁷ ^f Which dwelt among the Arabians, and were separat from the blessed sede.

¹⁸ ^/ Or, his lot fel.

¹⁸ ^g He meaneth that his lot fel to dwel among his brethren as the Angel promesd. {chap. 16,12}.

²⁰ ^/ Or, Syrian of Mesopotamia.

²² ⁱ For that is the onely refuge in all our miseries.

²² ^/ Or, hurt one another.

²² ^h That is, with childe, seing one shal destroye another.

²⁵ ^! The birth of Jaakob and Esau.

²⁷ ^/ Ebr. a man of the field.

²⁷ ^/ Or, simple and innocent.

²⁸ ^/ Ebr. venison in his mouthe.

³⁰ ^/ Or, fede me quickely.

³⁰ ^! Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of potage.

³² ^k The reprobate esteme not Gods benefites except they fele them presently, & therfore they preferre present pleasures.

³³ ^l Thus the wicked preferre their worldelie commodities to Gods spiritual graces: but the children of God do the contrary.

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