[Hagar] said, "Let me not look on the death of my child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.GENESIS 21:16+A Cry for SolaceI encourage myself with this hope alone, that in t...  Read More

[Abraham] sent her away.GENESIS 21:14+A Father's LoveAbraham was no ordinary Christian or confessor, if I may express myself in this way. No, he was a martyr of martyrs. For who is there who does not ...  Read More

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away.GENESIS 21:14+Loved above All ThingsTh...  Read More

"I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."GENESIS 21:13+The Prayer of the ChurchThe Lord commanded that Ishmael should be cast out. Lest He appear to have...  Read More

"Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."GENESIS 21:12+The Power of the Word[The apostle Paul] postulates a threefold progeny of Abraham. The first is physical and without the promise concerning ...  Read More

[Sarah] said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."GENESIS 21:10+Inheritance and CovenantWhat [Sarah] says about the...  Read More

Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.GENESIS 21:8+Celebrating the Lord's KindnessThis was not a feast of frivolous men. No, it was a feast of the saintliest fathers, who thanked...  Read More

Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me." And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old ...  Read More

Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. GENESIS 21:4+As God CommandedAbraham assigns the name to his son by divine authority, for the angel of the Lord ...  Read More

The LORD visited Sarah as He had said. . .. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.GENESIS 21:1, 3+The Source of JoyMoses is very wordy in this passage. He ...  Read More

Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, 'There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'"GENESIS 20:11+The Weakness of a SaintAlthough Abraham is full of fa...  Read More

Abimelech had not approached [Sarah]. So he said, "Lord, will You kill an innocent people? Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' "GENESIS 20:4-5+T...  Read More