For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
Ver. 7. If the Lord permit] The Lord ordereth a good man's goings, Psalms 37:23; See Act 16:7-10 cf. James 4:13. It was rather rashness than valour in our Richard I, who being told (as he sat at supper) that the French king had besieged his town of Vernoil in Normandy, protested that he would not turn his back until he had confronted the French, And thereupon he caused the wall of his palace that was before him to be broken down toward the south, and went to the sea coast immediately into Normandy.