Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,.... Not for joy of a son, and as pleased with it, believing so it would be; but as disbelieving it, and perhaps deriding it, and confuting it with a laugh,…
- The Visit of the Lord to Abraham 2. השׂתחיה vayı̂śtachû “bow,” or bend the body in token of respect to God or man. The attitude varies from a slight inclination of the body to entire prostration…
Adam Clarke
Sarah laughed - Partly through pleasure at the bare idea of the possibility of the thing, and partly from a conviction that it was extremely improbable. She appears to have been in the same spirit,…
These heavenly guests (being sent to confirm the promise lately made to Abraham, that he should have a son by Sarah), while they are receiving Abraham's kind entertainment, they return his kindness.…
Cambridge Bible
Sarah laughed within herself This is the laughter, according to J, which furnished a reason for the name "Isaac"; and on that account it is here emphasized. See, for the reason in P, Gen 17:17.
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