Genesis 18:14
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
Read Genesis 18:14 Using Other Translations
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."
Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
What does Genesis 18:14 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Genesis 18:14
FOOTNOTES:
F24 (alpyh) "nunquid mirabile vel mirificabitur", Munster, Piscator, Schmidt.
F25 "Nunquid abscondetur", Pagninus, Cartwright; "an potest occultari", Junius & Tremellius, Fagius; so the Targum of Jonathan and Aben Ezra.
Is anything too hard for the Lord?
&c.] Whose power is infinite; or "too wonderful" F24, so
wonderful and beyond all belief, that it can never be thought it
will be done by him; and why then should it be thought incredible
or impossible that Sarah should have a child, though she is old?
Or, is "anything hidden from the Lord" F25?
Nothing can be, not Sarah's laughter. At the time appointed
will I return to thee, according to the time of
life, and Sarah shall have a son;
which words are repeated not merely for the confirmation of
Abraham's faith, which staggered not, but to remove Sarah's
unbelief, and to encourage her faith in the divine promise.
F24 (alpyh) "nunquid mirabile vel mirificabitur", Munster, Piscator, Schmidt.
F25 "Nunquid abscondetur", Pagninus, Cartwright; "an potest occultari", Junius & Tremellius, Fagius; so the Targum of Jonathan and Aben Ezra.
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