19 Then God said, (A)Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an [a]everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

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  1. Genesis 17:19 The everlasting Covenant is made with the children of the Spirit: and with the children of the flesh is made the temporal promise, as was promised to Ishmael.

19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son,(A) and you will call him Isaac.[a](B) I will establish my covenant with him(C) as an everlasting covenant(D) for his descendants after him.

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  1. Genesis 17:19 Isaac means he laughs.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee, the next (A)year at this season.

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21 But my covenant(A) I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you(B) by this time next year.”(C)

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For (A)Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his [a]old age, at the same season that God told him.

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  1. Genesis 21:2 Therefore the miracle was greater.

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(A) to Abraham in his old age,(B) at the very time God had promised him.(C)

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[a]For this is a word of promise, (A)In this same time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

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  1. Romans 9:9 A reason of that application: Because that Isaac was born by the virtue of the promise, and therefore he was not chosen, nay he was not at all, but by the free will of God: whereby it followeth that the promise is the fountain of predestination, and not the flesh from which promise the particular election proceedeth: that is, that the elect be born elect: and not that they be first born and then afterward elected, in respect of God who doth predestinate.

For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14