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King James Bible - Genesis 18:14

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:14

¿Por ventura hay para Dios alguna cosa difícil? Al tiempo señalado volveré a ti, según el tiempo de la vida, y Sara tendrá un hijo.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:14

Verse 14. Is any thing too hard for the Lord?] rbd hwhym alpyh hayippale meihovah dabar, shall a word (or thing) be wonderful from the Lord? i.e., Can any thing be too great a miracle for him to effect? The Septuagint translate the passage, mh adunathsei para tw qew rhma; which St. Luke adopts almost literatim, only making it an affirmative position instead of a question: ouk adunathsei para tw qew pan rhma, which we translate, ""With God nothing shall be impossible,"" Luke i. 37. Many copies of the Septuagint insert the word pan before rhma, as in St. Luke; but it makes little difference in the sense. It was to correct Sarah's unbelief, and to strengthen her faith, that God spoke these most important words; words which state that where human wisdom, prudence, and energy fall, and where nature herself ceases to be an agent, through lack of energy to act, or laws to direct and regulate energy, there also God has full sway, and by his own omnific power works all things after the counsel of his own will. Is there an effect to be produced? God can produce it as well without as with means. He produced nature, the whole system of causes and effects, when in the whole compass of his own eternity there was neither means nor being. HE spake, and it was done; HE commanded, and it stood fast. How great and wonderful is God!

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 9-15 - Where is Sarah thy wife? was asked. Note the answer, In the tent. Jus at hand, in her proper place, occupied in her household concerns. Ther is nothing got by gadding. Those are most likely to receive comfor from God and his promises, who are in their proper place, and in the way of their duty, Lu 2:8. We are slow of heart to believe, and nee line upon line to the same purport. The blessings others have from common providence, believers have from the Divine promise, which make them very sweet, and very sure. The spiritual seed of Abraham owe their life, and joy, and hope, and all, to the promise. Sarah thinks this to good news to be true; she laughed, and therefore cannot as yet find it her heart to believe it. Sarah laughed. We might not have thought ther was a difference between Sarah's laughter and Abraham's, ch. 17:17; but He who searches the heart, saw that the one sprung from unbelief, an the other from faith. She denied that she had laughed. One sin commonl brings in another, and it is not likely we shall strictly keep to truth, when we question the Divine truth. But whom the Lord loves he will rebuke, convict, silence, and bring to repentance, and if they sin before him.

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Original Hebrew

היפלא 6381 מיהוה 3068 דבר 1697 למועד 4150 אשׁוב 7725 אליך 413 כעת 6256 חיה 2416 ולשׂרה 8283 בן׃ 1121