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.