Ishmael

The question whether Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, the bondmaid of Sarah, was an elect or one reprobated cannot help but arise in the mind of every alert Bible student among us. For the Bible seems to teach both. There are passages in the Scriptures in which Ishmael seems to stand before us as an elect, while others seem to set him before us as one reprobated. So the question, what was he, an elect or a reprobated one? The question whether Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, the...