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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73023" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73023" /> == | ||
<p> '''I'saac.''' ''(laughter).'' The son whom [[Sara]] bore to Abraham, in the hundredth year of his age, at Gerar. [[(B.C.]] 1897). In his infancy, he became the object of Ishmael's jealousy; and in his youth, the victim, in intention, of Abraham's great sacrificial act of faith. When forty years old, he married Rebekah, his cousin, by whom, when he was sixty, he had two sons, Esau and Jacob. </p> <p> Driven by famine to Gerar, he acquired great wealth by his flocks, but was repeatedly dispossessed by the Philistines of the wells which he sunk at convenient stations. After the deceit by which Jacob acquired his father's blessing, Isaac sent his son to seek a wife in Padan-aram; and all that we know of him during the last forty-three years of his life is that he saw that | <p> '''I'saac.''' ''(laughter).'' The son whom [[Sara]] bore to Abraham, in the hundredth year of his age, at Gerar. [[(B.C.]] 1897). In his infancy, he became the object of Ishmael's jealousy; and in his youth, the victim, in intention, of Abraham's great sacrificial act of faith. When forty years old, he married Rebekah, his cousin, by whom, when he was sixty, he had two sons, Esau and Jacob. </p> <p> Driven by famine to Gerar, he acquired great wealth by his flocks, but was repeatedly dispossessed by the Philistines of the wells which he sunk at convenient stations. After the deceit by which Jacob acquired his father's blessing, Isaac sent his son to seek a wife in Padan-aram; and all that we know of him during the last forty-three years of his life is that he saw that [[God]] , with a large and prosperous family, returned to him at Hebron, Genesis 36:27, before he died there, at the age of 180 years. He was buried by his two sons in the cave of Machpelah. </p> <p> In the New Testament, reference is made to the offering of Isaac, Hebrews 11:17; James 2:21, and to his blessing his sons. Hebrews 11:20. In Galatians 4:28-31, he is contrasted with Ishmael. In reference to the offering up of Isaac by Abraham, the primary doctrine taught are those of sacrifice and substitution, as the means appointed by God for taking away sin; and, as co-ordinate with these, the need of the obedience of faith, on the part of man, to receive the benefit. Hebrews 11:17. The animal which God provided and Abraham offered was, in the whole history of sacrifice, the recognized type of "the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world." Isaac is the type of humanity itself, devoted to death for sin. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16358" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16358" /> == | ||
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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70252" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70252" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> [[Isaac]] (''î'zak'' ), ''laughter, sporting.'' The heir of promise, son of Abraham by his wife Sarah, born when his father was 100 years old. His name, given before his birth. Genesis 17:19, was significant. Abraham had smiled incredulously when the promise was renewed to him and Sarah designated as the mother of the promised seed, and Sarah laughed derisively afterwards when she heard the reiterated word. Genesis 17:17 to Genesis 18:12. The son by his name, therefore, was to warn the parents against unbelief, and expressed the joy with which they received at last the fulfilment of the promise. Genesis 21:6. Isaac's life was far less stirring than that of his father Abraham, or that of his son Jacob. He was a man of mild contemplative character, suffering more than acting, easily persuaded, yet upon occasion firm. Isaac stands forth the model of that loving submission which those who become sons and heirs of God ought to pay to their heavenly parent, as inheritors of his father Abraham's faith. We best love to contemplate Isaac as bearing the wood with his father up the slopes of Moriah. Gentle, pious, conciliating as he was through the rest of his days, he never rose higher in after life; he hardly fulfilled this promise of his youth. Yet Isaac was a man of faith and prayer; and God was not ashamed to be called his God. Hebrews 11:16. His history conveys many instructive lessons. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56242" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56242" /> == | ||
