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(2.) The privilege of our communion with God
is to be looked upon with wonder and
admiration,
[1.] Considering what we are who are admitted
to this favour. "Have I? I that am so mean, I that
am so vile?" 2Sa 7:18.
[2.] Considering the place where we are thus
favoured--"here also? Not only in Abram's tent
and at his altar, but here also, in this
wilderness? Here, where I never expected it,
where I was out of the way of my duty? Lord,
how is it?" Joh 14:22. Some make the answer
to this question to be negative, and so look
upon it as a penitent reflection: "Have I here
also, in my distress and affliction, looked after
God? No, I was a careless and unmindful of
him as ever I used to be; and yet he has thus
visited and regarded me:" for God often
anticipates us with his favours, and is found of
those that seek him not, Isa 65:1.
14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lama-roi [the well of him that
liveth and seeth me]: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
The name which this gave to the place: Beer-
lahai-roi, The well of him that liveth and seeth
me, Ge 16:14. It is probable that Hagar put this
name upon it; and it was retained long after, in
perpetuam rei memoriam--a lasting memorial