And not only this,.... This instance of Ishmael and Isaac, is not the only one, proving that Abraham's natural seed, the children of the flesh, are not all children, the children of God:but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, "it was said unto her", Ro 9:12, being in a parenthesis, "the elder shall serve the younger".
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Romans 9:10
Romans 9:10
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