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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.

Genesis 16:8

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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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