...an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he {hat was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless, what saith the Scripture ? Cast out the bond-woman and her son...

...ineffectual, and the weakest used for their defence have been crowned with success? From the beginning he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit ; and numerous and skilful have been the devices which the children of this world formed against the...

...ineffectual, and the weakest used for their defence have been crowned with success? From the beginning he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit; and numerous and skilful have been the devices which the children of this world formed against the...

...cold indifference, or profane contempt, or open persecution. As in the earliest ages of religion, " he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit," even so it is now". Christians must, therefore, take up the cross, tread in the steps of their suffering...

...God. • First, Wicked men trouble those who serve God, by the injuries they do them. As at first, " he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit," even so it is now. And so it must be till all things are fulfilled; till " Heaven and earth pass away,"...

...the children of promise." ie They trusted rn the gracious promises of God — Verse 29. "But as then, he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now." Those who are born after the inward Spirit of divine grace, and consequently are...

...their hands, and concur therewith to prove that they belonged to the brood of Ishmael : for, " as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now :" and it has been, and will be so, throughout all ages, so long as the distinction...

...Hagar, the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. Compared with Gal. iv. 29. But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so il is now. a 1 Cor. vi. 10. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,...

...;" for, said our Lord, " if they have hated me, they will also hate you." And so we find it ; for as he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. There must therefore of necessity be drawn a broad line of separation between the...

...conduct of Ishmael, the progenitor of the Arabians, in the epistle to the Galatians : " But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now." In the Old Testament, Ishmael's descendants are marked as archers, and in Jacob's...