“Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.”
Abimelech summons Abraham and asks what he has done and what wrong Abraham imagined he had committed. The three searching questions — what have you done, what wrong did I do to you, what great guilt have you brought on me — are legitimate and precise. The pagan king is more morally exact than the patriarch in this exchange. Matthew 5:37 calls for the plain truth rather than manipulative half-truths. The application: the questions Abimelech asks are the questions honest community should be able to ask of one another.
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