Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 1:18
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Luke1:18
18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
The Words are much the same with those of Abraham Gen. 15.8. whereby shall I know I shall inherit it, viz. the Land of Caanan? And Mary v. 34. of this Chapter, when the same Angel had told her she should have a Child, v. 31. saith, How shall this be seeing I know not a Man? Gideon also asked a Sign Iud. 6.17. To our appearance and Judgment there seemeth no great difference betwixt these, and Zachariah in this place asking a Sign. Only Zachariah here opposeth his own sense and reason, to the Words of the Angel, yet we shall hear a different issue of this Question, or answer to it.
Marginal references: Gen. 17.17.
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