“And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.”
When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, she is my sister, because he was afraid to say, she is my wife. He thought, the men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful. The third wife-sister episode is now Isaac repeating his father's pattern exactly. The same fear, the same calculation, the same deception — two generations in, the same compromise. Romans 7:19-20 describes the patterns of sin that recur despite good intentions. The application: the sin-patterns of parents that are not confronted are available to the children as ready-made responses to the same fears.
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