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Genesis 28:14

The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 28:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,—promised to Abraham, ; to Isaac, under a different emblem, —and thou shalt spread abroad (literally, break forth) to the west, and to the east, to the north, and to the south:—(cf.

; ). In its ultimate significance this points to the world-wide universality of the kingdom of Christ (Murphy)—and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed (vide ; ; (Abraham); (Isaac).

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