32. 아브라함의 거룩한 선택
우상 숭배가 만연한
가나안에서, 며느리를 취하기를 거부하고,
충성스러운 종, 에리에셀을
먼 고향, 나흘 성에 보내어
예절바르고 현숙한 리브가를 취하여
이삭의 아내로 삼은 것은, 부모가 자녀의 행복을 위해
무엇을 해야 하는가를
믿음의 조상 아브라함은 행동으로 보여 준 것이다.
신앙의 바른 선택과
하나님의 온전한 사랑을
가정의 모본(模本)으로 삼도록 전해 주는 것은
부모의 자식 사랑의 절정임을 웅변함일러니.......
Genesis 24:1
And Abraham is old, and well stricken is
in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things
24:2
And Abraham said unto eldest servant of
his house, that ruled over all that he had,
Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
24:3
And I will make thee swears by the Lord,
the God of the heaven, and the God of the
earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto
my son of the daughters of the Canaanites,
among whom I dwell.
24:4
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to
my kindred, and take a wife unto my son
Isaac.
24: 5
And servant said unto him, Peradventure
the woman will not be willing to follow me
unto this land: must I bring thy son again
into the land from whence thou comest?
24:6
And Abraham unto said him, beware thou
that bring not my son thither again.
24:7
The Lord God of heaven, which took me
from my father`s house, and from the land
of kindred, and which speak unto me, and
that swear unto me, Saying. Unto thy seed
will I give this land; he shall send his angel
before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto
my son from thence.
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