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I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
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Verse 16. Bless, and enable her to have a son, who shall also have many children.—Whom. This is referred to Sara, in Hebrew and Chal.; but to Isaac, in the Syriac. The blessing, at any rate, reverts to the mother; who was a figure of the blessed Virgin, and of the Church; both persecuted with their children; both, in the end, triumphant. Galatians 4:23. Calmet.
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