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- Nonetheless, Sarah’s laughter is in fact a foreshadowing of the name of the son who is to come. He will be named Isaac, which means “child of laughter”. After giving birth to her much desired son, Sarah explains with a play on words her experience with God: “God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me.
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Aug 26, 2021 · After Isaac is born, Sarah does indeed laugh with joy, saying “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me” (Genesis 21:5-6). But before the birth of her son, before concrete proof of God’s promise, Sarah’s laughter is one of skepticism and doubt.
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May 15, 2023 · How do we reconcile Sarah‘s faith in Hebrews with her laughing in Genesis 18, when she wondered how it would be possible for her to give birth? Gen 18:12 - So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Sarah said, God has made me to laugh — Not through diffidence and irreverence, as my own distrustful heart before made me to laugh; but through excess of holy joy. He hath given me both cause and a heart to rejoice.
After long, long years of awaiting God’s promise, a son named Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah. But the miraculous birth is not the beginning of this story. The mysterious holy visit at the trees of Mamre gave Sarah the first hint of her becoming a mother-to-be.
Sep 15, 2019 · Even God does not know, and he asks Abraham, why has she laughed? does she doubt that the LORD can give her a child even at her advanced age? For the first time, Sarah enters the conversation, fearfully denying her laughter.
(6, 7) God hath made me to laugh.--Sarah's laugh was one of mingled emotions. Joy was uppermost in her mind, but women do not laugh for joy at the birth of a child.
At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. Read full chapter.
