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CHAPTER 23
Verse 4
buryingplace
Cf. Genesis 33:19; 50:13; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:15,16. A discrepancy in these statements has been fancied. It disappears entirely before the natural supposition that in the interval of about eighty years between the purchase by Abraham of the family sepulchre Genesis 23:4-20 and Jacob's purchase Genesis 33:19, the descendants of Hamor (or "Emmor," Acts 7:15,16 had resumed possession of the field in which the burial cave was situated. Instead of asserting an ancient title by inheritance, Jacob repurchased the field. Heth was the common ancestor.
Verse 16
And Abraham
(See Scofield "Genesis 23:4").
CHAPTER 24
Verse 1
And Abraham
The entire chapter is highly typical:
- (1) Abraham, type of a certain king who would make a marriage for his son Matthew 22:2; John 6:44.
- (2) the unnamed servant, type of the Holy Spirit, who does not "speak of himself," but takes of the things of the Bridegroom with which to win the bride John 16:13,14.
- (3) the servant, type of the Spirit as enriching the bride with the Bridegroom's gifts Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 12:7-11.
- (4) the servant, type of the Spirit as bringing the bride to the meeting with the Bridegroom Acts 13:4; 16:6,7; Romans 8:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-16.
- (5) Rebekah, type of the Church, the ecclesia, the "called out" virgin bride of Christ Genesis 24:16; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-32.
- (6) Isaac, type of the Bridegroom, "whom not having seen," the bride loves through the testimony of the unnamed Servant 1 Peter 1:8.
- (7) Isaac, type of the Bridegroom who goes out to meet and receive His bride Genesis 24:63; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-16.
