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9And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:9

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Matthew Henry

(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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