Genesis 17:19
1599 Geneva Bible
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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- 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.
Genesis 17:21
1599 Geneva Bible
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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Genesis 21:2
1599 Geneva Bible
2 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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- Genesis 21:2 Therefore the miracle was greater.
Romans 9:9
1599 Geneva Bible
9 [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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- 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.
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