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Gen_21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me.
Ver. 6. God hath made me to laugh.] "A wise son maketh a glad father". {Pro_10:1} Monstri autem simil est, quando pro risu sunt fletus, sunt flagellum . And yet this is many a good man’s case. How many parents are put to wish Moses’ wish, {Num_11:15} "Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, kill me, that I behold not my misery!" Had he lived to see what ways his grandchild Jonathan took, what a grief would it have been unto him! {Jdg_18:30} "Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh," &c. In the best Hebrew copies, Nun is suspended in that name: whereupon the Hebrews descant, that this Gershom was the son of Moses; but because he and his posterity walked not in the ways of Moses, but rather of Manasses, {2Ki_21:1-9} and did his works: therefore the penman of this book would not so far disgrace Moses, as to make him his son, as indeed he was, {Exo_2:1-2; Exo_2:10 1Ch_23:14-15} but rather of Manasses, whom he imitated and resembled. {a} How much better and happier had it been for them both if they had expressed their father’s manners, as Constantine’s sons did: of whom it is said, that they had put on whole Constantine, and in all good things did exactly resemble him. {b}
{a} Ac proinde studio inseruisse literam Nun, suspensam tamen; in signum, eam adesse vel abesse posse, ut sit et filius îשׁä vel îáשׁä , istius prosapia, huius imitatione. - Buxtorf. Tiber.
{b} äëïí åíåäõóáíôï ôïí Kïíóôáíôéíïí, åìðñåðïíôåò ôïéò ôïõ ðáôñïò êáëëùðéóìáóéí - Euseb.