QVEST. XIV. How long Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistims.

Vers. 34. ABraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season, &c. 1. Lyranus thinketh with other Hebrewes, that Abraham sojourned in this countrey 25. yeares: for so old Isaack is suppo∣sed to be, when Abraham was bid to offer him up in sacrifice: for then Abraham dwelt still in Beersheba, and somewhat after. 2. It is also not unlike, that Abrahams time of abode was longer in Beersheba, than it was in Hebron, in the plaine of Mamre: for it was but 25. yeares from Abrahams first comming into Ca∣naan, in the 75. yeare of his age, to the birth of Isaack, in his 100. yeare: Lyran. 3. From this time of Isaacks birth beginneth the account of the 400. yeares mentioned, Gen. 15.13. Calvin.

Now whereas S. Paul doth draw this history of Sarah and Hagar, Isaack and Ismael, to an allegory: this place giveth occasion to intreat of and handle the Apostles words:* and to gather the summe of Pere∣rius and others commentaries upon that Scripture, as it is set forth, Galat. 4. v. 21. to v. 27.