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from her face. She not only avoided her wrath
for the present, as David did Saul's, but she
totally deserted her service, and ran away from
the house, forgetting,
(1.) What wrong she hereby did to her mistress,
whose servant she was, and to her master,
whose wife she was. Note, Pride will hardly be
restrained by any bonds of duty, no, not by
many.
(2.) That she herself had first given the
provocation, by despising her mistress. Note,
Those that suffer for their faults ought to bear
their sufferings patiently, 1Pe 2:20.
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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,
How the angel arrested her in her flight, Ge
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 well if
our afflictions would make us think of our