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on her hand, he raises the question, “Whose daughter art

thou?” But she first of all had demonstrated that she was

suitable for Isaac.

That is a great point that the Spirit of God is bringing about. He

is bringing about the comeliness that is suited to Christ, and

then, dear brethren, there can be little question about the

genealogy. And that is our day, it is no good putting a label on

your breast saying what you are. That will not do nowadays;

that will not do. In Luke 7 her tears, her hair, and the myrrh

bring out the side of substantiality. She borrowed nothing from

Simon. She came into that man’s house; she carried the

water, she carried the towel, she carried the myrrh; it was all in

herself. She carried it all with her; every item that she used

was herself; that is the idea; the water, her tears; the towel

was her hair,

and she had the myrrh. What a woman she is! What about

saying now that she is black? Is she not comely? Oh, what a

product! But that is going on, beloved brethren, and let us be

encouraged by that, that there is this going on day by day, the

formation of the comeliness that is suitable to be linked with

Christ’. As I said, in Genesis 24 that is the great thing typically

in the Spirit’s mind, that there might be what is in every way in

keeping with Isaac.

The servant knew what Isaac was; he was there when Isaac

was born. The Spirit of God had to do with the birth of Jesus, a

very wonderful truth. He was fully cognizant of the mount, of

the altar; that servant was fully cognizant of all that went on

between Abraham and Isaac for those years, and he says, ‘I

must get some response to that’, and that is what is seen in

this matter of comeliness; it is a beautiful word— comely. It is

what is suitable, what is like Christ Himself.

So are we answering to Himself? That raises the question. Are

we suitable to be linked with Christ? “This shall be called

Woman, because this was taken out of a man”. There is no