Contributed by Glenn Pease on Apr 7, 2021
The son is only a promise, but already Manoah is filled with
anxiety. He is overcome by his inadequacy to be a father. In verse 8
he cries out in prayer, "O Lord, I beg you, let the man of God you
sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be
born."
According to the Guiness Book of Records the last Emperor of
Morocco, Moulay Ismail, who lived 100 years from 1627 to 1727 was
reported to have fathered 548 sons and 340 daughters for a grand
total of 888. He would, no doubt, say amen to the brief poem of
Wilhelm Busch, "Becoming a father is
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