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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|it up with the more modern, send it to the “heathen” as “God’s Word,” and place it in the hands of the children. We will turn to this blessed book and, “searching the scriptures,” we will seek for god’s will touching the marriage relations of men and women. We shall find his will partly in precept, and partly in the conduct of his friends, described for our example.}} | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-18}} | We are not told anything as to the marital relations of the antediluvian patriarchs; but, as Adam and his wife, Eve, were the only original pair, it is obvious that their sons and daughters must have intermarried among themselves. God cannot have any strong dislike to marriage between brothers and sisters, or he would have started the human race from two families, unrelated to each other, who might have intermarried. In chapter vi. we learn that the “sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Nothing is said as to the loyalty of the divine spouses, so we cannot found any argument on their proceedings, unsatisfactory as the results appear to have been. Ourfirst glimpse of divinely ordered family life is when we are introduced to Abram, the friend of God. Abram’s wife was Sarai, his half-sister, as we learn from Gen. xx., 12: “She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.” There were plenty of other women in the world at this period, so that god’s friend contracted this objectionable marriage by choice, and god showed his approval by making this married brother and half-sister the ancestors of his incarnate son. We shall as, we go on, find other similarly disreputable characters among the chosen ancestors of the Messiah. Abram twice gained great profit from the relationship between himself and his wife when he was travelling among more decent people. When he went to Egypt (Gen. xii., 10-20), he persuaded Sarah to say she was his sister, and the King of Egypt took her into his house, and paid Abraham well for her with “sheep and oxen and he-asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels.” God plagued poor innocent Pharaoh for falling into the trap so artfully baited by Abram, and Pharaoh finding he had taken another man’s wife, gave her back to her cowardly husband, and was generous enough to let Abraham keep all that he had given him “for her sake.” Fifty-one years afterwards Abram, then called Abraham, made a similarly good investment down in Gerar. Abimelech, attracted by her ripe beauty—Sarah was then 90 years of age—took her, and when god told him that she was Abraham’s wife, he restored her, reproaching Abraham for his wickedness, and Abraham excused himself by the fact that she was really his sister, although he had married her; and Abimelech gave him “one thousand pieces of silver,” and “sheep an oxen, and men-servants and women- {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-18}} | ||