Genesis 13

Genesis 13:7

It was not proper these heathens should be scandalized by a strife between such as were brethren both by natural relation and by the fission of the true religion

Genesis 13:8

Ps. cxxxiii. 1, 2, 3. “Behold how good and how pleasant it is brethren to dwell together in unity!” Heb. xiii. 1. “Let brethren continue.” Gen. xlv. 24. “He sent his brethren away—and said unto me: ‘See that ye fall not out by the way.’” Acts vii. 26. “Ye are brethren, ‘do ye wrong one to another?’—Rom. xii

Genesis 13:17

Abram’s survey of Canaan was a mean of strengthening his faith and of enabling him to discern the glories of heaven thereby represented

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XIII.—Mark, my soul, what a load, what an occasion of strife, the riches of this world are! And how sinful and imprudent it is, for the children of God to indulge contention before a carnal generation! Better to be losers in outward things, than strivers about them! Never let me dare to mingle myself with monsters of wickedness for the sake of carnal advantage, lest, where I expect a paradise, I should find a bell! If, by yielding for the sake of peace, I submit myself to the worst, new visits from God, new premises, and new surveys of the Canaan above, will more than make up my loss. Meanwhile, wherever I go, let me set the Lord always before me, and 3 attend to his worship and service as my principal employ: then shall his blessing go with me, and render every change on earth a pleasing earnest of the promised inheritance