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Isaac married Rebecca, the grand-daughter of Nahor, his father's
brother, when he was forty years old, that is, in the 140th year
of his father's life, three years after his mother's death. Now
when a servant was sent to Mesopotamia by his father to fetch her, and
when Abraham said to that servant, "Put thy hand under my thigh,
and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the
Lord of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son Isaac
of the daughters of the Canaanites," what else was pointed out by
this, but that the Lord, the God of heaven, and the Lord of the
earth, was to come in the flesh which was to be derived from that
thigh? Are these small tokens of the foretold truth which we see
fulfilled in Christ?
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