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| | Isaac Did You Mean isaac? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Isaac was so called because when his mother, Sarah, overheard that she would bear a child in her old age, she laughed (Genesis 18:10-15, 21:6-7). |
 | | Isaac was circumcised by his father when eight days old (Genesis 4-7); and a great feast was held in connection with his being weaned. |
 | | Isaac is "at once a counterpart of his father in simple devoutness and purity of life, and a contrast in his passive weakness of character, which in part, at least, may have sprung from his relations to his mother and wife. |
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