John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 21:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old as, God had commanded him.] (<011712>Genesis 17:12), and was the first that we read of that was circumcised on that day, according to the divine precept, which Abraham strictly observed; for though this was the son of the promise, and of his old age, for whom he had the most affectionate regard, yet he administered this bloody ordinance on him; nor did he defer it beyond the time, and was himself the operator, as it seems; all which shows his strict regard, and ready and cheerful obedience to the command of God.

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