9And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. …
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. …
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
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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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