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Literature
Church, R. W., The Discipline of the Christian Character (1886), 1.
Deane, W. J., Abraham: His Life and Times.
Dods, M., The Book of Genesis (Handbooks for Bible Classes) (1882), 57.
Dods, M., The Book of Genesis (Expositor's Bible) (1888), 81.
Driver, S. R., The Book of Genesis (Westminster Commentaries) (1904), 144.
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Robertson, J., The Early Religion of Israel (1892), 252.
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Thomson, W. M., The Land and the Book (1864), 214.
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Trumbull, H. Clay, The Blood Covenant (1887), 215.
Trumbull, H. Clay, The Threshold Covenant (1896), 170.
Williams, I., The Characters of the Old Testament (1870), 34.
Expositor, 1st. Ser., x. (1881) 216 (R. E. Bartlett).
Interpreter, vi. (1910) 120 (W. E. Barnes).
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.- Gen_17:1-2.
The fifteenth chapter of Genesis introduces the subject of the promises made to Abraham and the covenant entered into for their fulfilment. Hitherto Abraham had been the recipient of promises and blessings; and all seems ready for the moment when he may be installed as the head of a new covenant, and receive the promised seed. But now various delays, hindrances, and disappointments intervene, in overcoming which he gives evidence both of the strength of his faith and of the Providence continually watching over him. Thus the following narratives exhibit, under different aspects, Abraham's moral education and probation, until at last the perfect man of God, the hero of faith, who is to serve as a pattern to all coming generations, stands fully portrayed before us. The point about which Abraham's trials mainly centre is the attainment and possession of a bodily heir, who should found the covenant-race.