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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.
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.