35<\/strong>. hath blessed<\/em> ] Cf. Gen 24:1<\/em><\/span>. The servant recounts the wealth of Abraham of which we have heard in Gen 12:16<\/span>, Gen 13:2<\/span>. The servant’s first object is to represent that, from a worldly point of view, a marriage with Abraham’s son would be not only prudent, but desirable.<\/p>\n And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly<\/strong>,…. With temporal blessings, after enumerated, which are of God, and are here ascribed to him, the Father, fountain, author, and giver of all such mercies:<\/p>\n and he is become great<\/strong>; in the world, and highly honoured and esteemed among men:<\/p>\n and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and menservants and maidservants, and camels and asses<\/strong>; though many of them were obtained in the diligent use of means, yet with the blessing of God; and others were the gifts of princes to him, as of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Abimelech king of Gerar; yet, as it was the Lord that put it into their hearts to be so liberal to him, they are here called his gifts; see Ge 12:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n Gen 24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.<\/p>\n Ver. 35. And the Lord hath blessed my master.<\/strong> ] Ministers, Christ’s spokesmen, must likewise woo for Christ, by setting forth his great wealth; and not speak one word for Christ and two for themselves, as those did in Phi 1:15<\/span> . John Baptist was no such spokesman. Joh 3:29 It is the special office of the ministry to lay Christ open, to hold up the tapestry, and let men see him as he is set forth, Heb 1:2-3 that they may be sick of love; for otherwise, Christ is like to have but a cold suit of it.<\/p>\n And. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton, App-6, to emphasize all the items which went to make up Abraham’s wealth. Twelve “ands” (3 x 4 = 12) = abundance of earthly wealth. See App-10. <\/p>\n the Lord: Gen 24:1, Gen 12:2, Gen 13:2, Gen 25:11, Gen 26:12, Gen 49:25, Psa 18:35, Psa 112:3, Pro 10:22, Pro 22:4, 1Ti 4:8 <\/p>\n flocks: Gen 12:16, Gen 13:2, Gen 26:13, Gen 26:14, Job 1:3, Job 42:10-12, Psa 107:38, Mat 6:33 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 23:6 – my lord Gen 30:43 – General Deu 2:7 – blessed Job 42:12 – he had Isa 51:2 – for Luk 7:2 – who 2Co 12:14 – for the 1Ti 6:1 – count<\/p>\n 24:35 And the LORD hath {r} blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.<\/p>\n (r) To bless signifies here to enrich, or increase with substance as the text in the same verse declares.<\/p>\n And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. 35. hath blessed ] Cf. Gen 24:1. The servant recounts the wealth of Abraham of which we have heard in Gen 12:16, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 24:35”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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