Genesis 24:67 - Exposition

And Isaac —receiving an account ( Genesis 24:66 ) from his father's faithful ambassador of all things that he had done— brought her into his mother Sarah's tent (which must have been removed from Hebron as a precious relic of the family, if by this time they had changed their abode), and took Rebekah, and she became his wife— the primitive marriage ceremony consisting solely of a taking before witnesses ( vide Ruth 4:13 ). And he loved her . And he had every reason; for, besides being beautiful and kindly and pious, she had for his sake performed a heroic act of self-sacrifice, and, better still, had been both selected for and bestowed upon him by his own and his father's God. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Literally, after his mother; the word death not being in the original, " as if the Holy Spirit would not conclude this beautiful and joyful narrative with a note of sorrow" (Wordsworth).

HOMILETICS