SEV Biblia, Chapter 38:17
El respondió: Yo te enviaré de las ovejas un cabrito de las cabras. Y ella dijo: Hazme de dar prenda hasta que lo envíes.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:17
Verse 17. Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it?] The word wbr[ erabon signifies an earnest of something promised, a part of the price agreed for between a buyer and seller, by giving and receiving of which the bargain was ratified; or a deposit, which was to be restored when the thing promised should be given. St. Paul uses the same word in Greek letters, appabwn, 2 Cor. i. 22; Eph. i. 14. From the use of the term in this history we may at once see what the apostle means by the Holy Spirit being the EARNEST, appabwn, of the promised inheritance; viz., a security given in hand for the fulfillment of all God's promises relative to grace and eternal life. We may learn from this that eternal life will be given in the great day to all who can produce this erabon or pledge. He who has the earnest of the Spirit then in his heart shall not only be saved from death, but have that eternal life of which it is the pledge and the evidence. What the pledge given by Judah was, see on chap. xxxviii. 25.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The profligate conduct of Judah and his family.
--This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and such a account it is, that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, ou Lord should spring out of Judah, Heb 7:14. But God will show that his choice is of grace and not of merit, and that Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief. Also, that the worthiness of Christ is of himself, and not from his ancestors. How little reason ha the Jews, who were so called from this Judah, to boast as they did, Jo 8:41. What awful examples the Lord proclaims in his punishments, of his utter displeasure at sin! Let us seek grace from God to avoid ever appearance of sin. And let that state of humbleness to which Jesu submitted, when he came to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, in appointing such characters as those here recorded, to be his ancestors endear the Redeemer to our hearts __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אנכי 595 אשׁלח 7971 גדי 1423 עזים 5795 מן 4480 הצאן 6629 ותאמר 559 אם 518 תתן 5414 ערבון 6162 עד 5704 שׁלחך׃ 7971
