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therefore she will not submit as she has done.
Note,
1. Mean and servile spirits, when favoured and
advanced either by God or man, are apt to grow
haughty and insolent, and to forget their place
and origin. See Pr 29:21, Pr 30:21-23. It is a
hard thing to bear honour aright.
2. We justly suffer by those whom we have
sinfully indulged, and it is a righteous thing
with God to make those instruments of our
trouble whom we have made instruments of our
sin, and to ensnare us in our own evil counsels:
this stone will return upon him that rolleth it.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
Abram is clamoured upon, and cannot be easy
while Sarai is out of humour; she upbraids him
vehemently, and very unjustly charges him
with the injury (Ge 16:5): My wrong be upon
thee, with a most unreasonable jealousy
suspecting that he countenanced Hagar's
insolence; and, as one not willing to hear what
Abram had to say for the rectifying of the
mistake and the clearing of himself, she rashly
appeals to God in the case: The Lord judge
between me and thee; as if Abram had refused