When he had been there a long time,
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing
with Rebekah his wife. 9 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is
your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
I love that Isaac and Rebekah's marital
bliss overflowed in such common, everyday ways that anyone observing them knew
that they were married. They laughed and played in such a way in public that it
implied also a private relationship. Oh that more Christian marriages were more
publically identified by this kind of stereotype instead of the blank stares
over bland food that so often serves as the prototype for Christian, married
life.
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