1. Hey, folks, your ideas appreciated. Prepping for study of Genesis 24 tonight. Verse 2 recounts oath Abraham exacts of servant to find a wife for Isaac. The oath is signified by a gesture: the servant putting his hand under Abraham’s thigh.
2. It’s clear enough that the oath expresses Abraham’s faith that God will fulfill His promises through Abraham’s genetic descendants. The gesture was common for oath-taking in such matters.
3. ‘The Lutheran Study Bible’ states that the “oath [also] testified to their faith in the coming Messiah, who would be born of Abraham’s line.”
4. I believe that’s true and we see God’s promises and intimations of the Messiah beginning at least as early as Genesis 3. You see them in Genesis 6-8 and again in Genesis 23, among other places.
5. But can any of you suggest a more extensive line of reasoning for saying that Abraham’s oath in Genesis 24:2 expresses faith in the coming Messiah? Thank you!

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