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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
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Obedience as Proof, Not Price
Commentators like Calvin, Gill, and Henry agree that Abraham's obedience did not earn God's promises, which are a gift of grace. Instead, his obedience is presented as the outward evidence and fruit of his justifying faith. God commends this faithfulness not as a condition for the covenant, but as proof of Abraham's genuine relationship with Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”
עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”
שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19–35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham beg…
16th Century
Protestant
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice. Moses does not mean that Abraham’s obedience was the reason why the promise of God was confirmed and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice In all things, and particularly in offering up his son at his command: …
Isaac had been trained in a believing dependence on the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in …
