8And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? …
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)Here is the first mention we have in scripture of an angel’s appearance. Hagar was a type of the law, which was given by the disposition of angels; but the world to come is not put in subjection to them , Heb. 2:5. Observe, I. How the angel arrested her in her flight, Gen. 16:7. It should seem, she was making towards her own country; for she was in the way to Shur, which lay towards Egypt. It were…
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