Verse 5
5. Brought him forth abroad Whether in vision, or on the night following the day of the vision of Genesis 15:1, has been disputed . Either supposition is allowable, and some think the whole transaction occupied two nights and one day . Another view is, to regard the whole transaction up to Genesis 15:12 as a vision of the daytime . See note at the beginning of the chapter .
Tell the stars Rather, number the stars . The Lord had promised him posterity numberless as the grains of dust, (Genesis 13:16;) now he compares their number to the stars. “God does not tell him how, but a third time, more emphatically and sublimely than ever, the great promise is repeated, and Abram is led forth, ‘whether in the body or out of the body’ it matters not, to look into the deep Asiatic heavens, and the stars are pointed out to him as emblems of his seed.
So shall thy seed be In numbers, in heavenly splendor. No proof or evidence whatever is offered him, nothing but the naked word of God.” Newhall.
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