“Do you wish to learn the symbolic meaning of Sarah's sterility? The church was to bring forth the multitude of believers. In order, therefore, that you may not find incredible how one who was childless, fruitless and barren could have given birth, she who by nature was barren went ahead, paving the way for chosen ster…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — DO NOT DESPAIR
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2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
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1And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
— Genesis 21:2 —
3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.