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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament.|14-16}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament.|14-16}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|servants.” Not much appearance of reverencing the sanctity of marriage in god’s friend. Sarai had no children, but she “had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hager,” and she “gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.” (God did not, then, disapprove of polygamy.) Hager was expecting to become a mother, and Sarah was jealous and complained to her husband. He chivalrously answered: “Behold, thy maid is in thy hand: do to her as it pleaseth thee.” And Sarai “dealt hardly with her,” and the unhappy women fled into the desert, from the house of the father of her unborn child. (Abram was no Secularist, but the friend of god). An angel sent poor Hagar back again, and the child was born. Fourteen years later, Isaac was born of Sarah, and than Abraham drove out into the desert his concubine Hagar and his son Ishmael, with nought save some bread and a bottle of water. Is the bishop of Manchester so busy with the imaginary doctrines of Secularism that he has no time to launch one word of rebuke at this hoary reprobate, who “lives tally” with poor Hagar and drives her away when he wants her no longer, when her youth has fled? We learn from Gen. xxv., that Abraham had other concubines, but he ‘gave gifts’ to their children before he sent them away. The shameful story of Lot and his daughters is only fit for a Christian Bible. I cannot print it here. We find god protecting the Moabites and giving them land, because they sprung from this revolting and unnatural transaction (Gen. xix., 30--38, and Deut. ii., 9).}} | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-19}} | Isaac, Abraham’s favorite son, followed his father’s bad example, and deceived Abimelech, the King of Gerar, in exactly the same way as his father has done. Abimelech was wiser this time and was not deluded into buying Rebekah, as he had bought Sarah. But God made up to Isaac for disappointment, for “Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him” (Gen. xxvi., 6-14]. The household of Jacob ought scarcely to meet with Dr. Fraser’s approval. Jacob married two sisters and their two maids, and had children by all of them. God appears to have presided over the ''menage'', for we read how god “hearkened” to Leah and to Rachel, and gave them sons. | ||
In Gen. xxxviii., we read the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law, and find that their son Pharez is among the ancestors of the son of the god. First a marriage between a brother and his half-sister: then a marriage between a man and his daughter-in-law; surely the Bishop of Manchester should tell his flock of the kind of marriages god approves as manifested in the chosen ancestors of Christ. From the examples of Genesis, we turn to the precepts of Exodus, and here find the views of god concerning the sanctity of marriage put very plainly. God was speaking himself on Mount Sinai, and he said touching a Hebrew slave: {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-19}} | |||