of promise Lit. of the promise; the promise just referred to in the illustrative case. The "children of God" among Abraham's bodily descendants were to be limited within the descendants by Sarah;i.e. within Isaac's line.

At this time i.e. of the next year. (Genesis 18:10.) The quotation is nearly literally after the Hebrew, but varies (merely verbally) from the LXX.

Sara The name of limitation. Hagar's son was also "Abraham's seed;" but not in the intention of the Promise.

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