And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
Reader! Pause here to remark, that while the gift of a Son became such a subject of astonishment to Sarah; what greater cause have you and I to be astonished, that God should have given his only begotten Son, to the end, that all which believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life! Nay, to advance one step farther in the wonderful mercy, who could have believed that such a gift should have been given to you, or to me? Well may we exclaim with the prophet: Wonder, O Heavens, and be astonished, O earth.