Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Genesis 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt Me and you.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt Me and you.
Verse Genesis 17:11. _AND IT SHALL BE A TOKEN_] לאות _leoth_, for a sign of spiritual things; for the circumcision made in the flesh was designed to signify the purification of the heart from all unr...
- The Sealing of the Covenant 1. שׁדי _shaday_, Shaddai, “Irresistible, able to destroy, and by inference to make, Almighty.” שׁדד _shādad_ “be strong, destroy.” This name is found six times in Gene...
CHAPTER 17 THE FIFTH COMMUNICATION AND THE COVENANT REPEATED _ 1. The communication and Abram worships (Genesis 17:1)_ 2. The enlarged promise (Genesis 17:4) 3. The covenant sign (Genesis 17:9) 4....
GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
_a token_ i.e. an outward sign. Cf. the rainbow which was the token of the covenant of Noah, Genesis 9:12-13....
Circumcision the Token of the Covenant 9. _thou shalt keep_ "Keep" in the sense of "observe": the reverse is to "break" (Genesis 17:14) the covenant. Notice the sing, "thou," and the plur. "ye shall k...
A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT, &C.— Here circumcision is called a _token,_ as before it was called the _covenant;_ so the Paschal Lamb is called the _Passover of the Lord,_ Exodus 11:10 of which it was only...
3. _The Covenant-Sign_ (Genesis 17:9-14) 9 And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant,...
_AND YE SHALL CIRCUMCISE THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN; AND IT SHALL BE A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT BETWIXT ME AND YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION This chapter is from the Priestly document, of which it shows marked characteristics: see preface to Genesis 15....
THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN] better, 'the foreskin of your flesh.'...
To ‘*circumcise’ means to cut the skin from the end of a male person’s sex part. When someone has done that to a person, that person is ‘*circumcised’. It is a sign that God has made a firm agreement...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 17 GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH ABRAHAM V1 When Abram was 99 years of age, the *Lord appeared to him. The *Lord said to him, ‘I am God who can do...
וּ נְמַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת בְּשַׂ֣ר עָרְלַתְכֶ֑ם וְ...
THE COVENANT SEALED Genesis 17:1 ACCORDING to the dates here given fourteen years had passed since Abram had received any intimation of God's will regarding him. Since the covenant had been made some...
GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM Genesis 17:1 At least thirteen years had passed since the promise of Isaac was first made. Years of sorrow and discipline, but God had not forgotten. Always under such cir...
This chapter gives the account of the fifth appearance of God to Abram in which a divine covenant was made. At this point his name was changed from Abram, which means exalted father, to Abraham, which...
CIRCUMCISION AND THE PROMISE The act of circumcision was a part of the covenant which included the land promise (17:1-14). It should be noted the giving of the land was unconditional, but retaining it...
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your (d) foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. (d) That private part is circumcised, to show that all that is begotten by man is c...
You shall, either by yourselves, or by the ministry of others, with respect to infants. That part of the body was chosen, because the effects of sin first appeared there; and because a part of the Heb...
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? It is profitable to o...
We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
11._Ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin _Very strange and unaccountable would this command at first sight appear. The subject treated of, is the sacred covenant, in which righteousness, sal...
In chapter 17 we have a fresh revelation of the Lord to Abram, and, I think, are upon higher and holier ground. It is not here calling, or worship, or the world and victory over it in Lot (12-14 [1]),...
AND YE SHALL CIRCUMCISE THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN,.... Or "the foreskin of your flesh" u; by an hypallage v, the manner in which this was performed may be seen in the Jewish writers w, as well as the...
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. Ver. 11. _It shall be a token of the covenant._] It seals up nothing then to those that...
[ABRAHAM.] 1 God reneweth the Couenant. 5 Abram his name is changed, in token of a greater blessing. 10 Circumcision is instituted. 15 Sarai her name is changed, and she blessed. 17 Izsaac is pro...
SIXTH SECTION _Abram and the repeated Promise of God. The name Abram changed to Abraham. The personal Covenant of Faith, now a Covenant Institution for him, his Household and his Seed. Circumcision....
THE COVENANT AND ITS SIGN - CIRCUMCISION Another thirteen years passes before the Lord's appearing to Abram now at the age of 99 years. In Chapter 15:1 He had told Abram, "I am your shield, your excee...
7-14 The covenant of grace is from everlasting in the counsels of it, and to everlasting in the consequences of it. The token of the covenant was circumcision. It is here said to be the covenant whic...
THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN, i.e. by a usual hypallage, _the foreskin of your flesh; _ and the word _flesh_ is here put for the genital part, as it is LEVITICUS 15:2,19 EZE 16:26 23:20, and elsewhere....
Here we have God's remedy for Abraham's failure set before us." And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, I am the _ Almighty God:_ walk before _ m...
Genesis 17:11 circumcised H5243 (H8804) flesh H1320 foreskins H6190 sign H226 covenant H1285 the flesh -...
‘And God said to Abraham, “And as for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations. This is my covenant that you shall keep between me and you and your seed...
CONTENTS: The revelation of God. Abram's name changed. Covenant confirmed. Circumcision established. Promise of Isaac. CHARACTERS: God, Abram, Isaac, Sarah, Ishmael. CONCLUSION: When man is in the d...
Genesis 17:1. _The Almighty God._ The original word Shaddai is often rendered, All-sufficient. He is so called because he sheds down blessings as the rain. Genesis 17:2. _My covenant;_ so called becau...
_Every man child among you shall be circumcised_ THE COVENANT SEAL I. ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. 1. It taught the natural depravity of man. 2. It taught the necessity of purification. 3. It taug...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 17:11 YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED IN THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKINS. Circumcision, cutting off the foreskin of the penis, creates a mark that would not normally be visible to others....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 17:1 Thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael, the Lord appears to Abram and announces that he will establish an eternal covenant with Abram and his offspring. Abram will beco...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 17:10. My Covenant.] The outward sign is here called the Covenant, for it is the seal set upon the Covenant. The same mode of expression is used in Acts 7:8. Also, in the Lord...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 17:1 AND WHEN ABRAM WAS NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE—consequently an interval of thirteen years had elapsed since the birth of Ishmael; the long delay on the part of God being probabl...
Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old (Genesis 17:1), So this is another thirteen years later. the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am Almighty God (Genesis 17:1); El Shaddai. So her...
the flesh. Exodus 4:25 Joshua 5:3 1 Samuel 18:25 2 Samuel 3:14 a token. Acts 7:8
ABRAM AND SARAI GREATLY ENLARGED Genesis 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have passed by the sixteenth chapter of Genesis, it behooves us, therefore, to give some striking suggestions relative to Sarai a...