The sorrow of Israel was great, if any family or tribe went childless; Jeremiah 22:30. And the reason, over and above the common affliction of barrenness in a house, was, because the prospect Israel looked to, of Christ coming out of that family, was thereby defeated. Moreover, by the law, any one that had a blemish was deprived of the honour of the priesthood, and admittance into the congregation of the Lord; Leviticus 21:17. But what a rich consolation did the Lord hold out in this scripture, in the view of the covenant, in and by Christ, of adoption into his family. What a fulness of all relations in one, is found in Jesus! He fills all, and supplies all, and makes up the want of all. And as Elkanah said to Hannah, how much more may we hear Christ speaking; Am not I better to thee than ten sons? 1 Samuel 1:8. Oh! for grace to have an union and interest in that everlasting name of Christ, by which his people are called, Acts 11:26.

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