Verse 11
11. Abraham said Abraham’s answer has four points: 1) He thought the people of Gerar to be without the fear of God . 2) That they would therefore be likely to slay him, in order to obtain his wife . 3) She was, indeed, his sister . 4) They had both entered into an agreement at the beginning of their wanderings, that, for mutual safety, they would, among strange peoples, call each other brother and sister .
Fear of God The reverence and piety due before the Holy One . Abraham had, very probably, seen things in Gerar which were contrary to his ideas of uprightness, and he was prompted to his duplicity by the same motive of fear that actuated him in Egypt . Compare Genesis 12:12.
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