משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”

עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”

שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…

THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19-35:29).

What is this thou hast done unto us? The Lord does not chastise Isaac as he deserved, perhaps because he was not so fully endowed with pat…

And Abimelech said, what is this you have done to us ?
&c.] By entertaining suspicions and jealousies of us as bad m…

There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his fat…