CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 20

Abraham failing in respect of faith, as to those who were externally within the place of promise — Abimelech and the Philistines — is delivered, and as prophet intercedes for them. (The church could not go on with these mixtures.) Then, having denied his wife, the rebuke is put upon Sarah — the church; or Israel, as the vessel of promise, as the case may be. The world knows very well what the church ought to be for Christ, and how to reprove her.