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Wherefore he called that place her-Sheba : bctcauso here tllcy swartboth of them. 32 Thus they made a covettan1 at ker-sheba: thenAbimelech rose up. and Phichol the chief captatn of his host. and theyreturned unto the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a grovein Beer-rheba. and called there on the name of the LORD. the everlabtingGod. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many dayr.Just us Abimelech did not know that his servants hadviolently taken away the well of water which belongedto' Abraham, this illustrates in the allegory that theprinces of !his world did not know that their servants hadcrucified the Lord of glory, thus taking away the "Well"of the wzter of truth. Nevertheless, God will reprovethem for this cruel work; for the Gentiles are partly held ,responsible with the Jews for violently taking away theSon of God.The seven ewe lambs represent the complete Church,the Lord's sheep, who witness the fact to the world thatit is God who hat "digged this well," Beer-sheba, the"Well of the oath.'The everlasting Gad, hhng established his oath-boundcovenant with the Gentiles, to take out of them a peoplefor His name, prolonged His visit among them for "manydays"-namely, the whole length of the Gospel Age.The selection and setting apart of the Church (the ewelambs) is a witness to the integrity of God that he willnot deal falsely with the Gentiles during his ?ohurnamong them. 'The next three chapters of Geneds-namely, chapters22 to 24, deal with the. Gospel Age. . .As the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is the central point of tl;ewholeplap of salvation,still another chapter isdevoted to it.The account here givea in the 22nd chapter shows God'spart in the sactifice. Though the Jews and the Gentileswere more or less responsible, in that they acted, of theirown free will, nevertheless they could not have committedthe cruel deed had God not permitted it, and had Jeew