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Gen_16:8 And 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.
Ver. 8. Hagar, Sarai’s maid.] This was a good item to her, that she was out of her way, because out of her place.
Whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou?] Such is the sweet and secret voice of God’s Spirit, that angelus tutelaris , as I may say, in our hearts, when extravagant, so that we cannot do the evil we would. {Gal_5:17}
I flee from the face of my mistress, Sarai.] Who haply had overdone, as we are all apt to do, when we are judges in our own causes and concernments. She should have thought of that of Job, {Job_31:15} "Did not he that made me in the womb make" her? and that of Paul, Have not I also "a Master in heaven"? {Col_4:1} But passion is headlong, and, like heavy bodies down steep hills, once in motion, rest not till they come to the bottom. Look to it, therefore, in corrections especially.