Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac.
Ver. 10. Cast out this bondwoman.] Who had been, likely, either an author or abettor of her son's sin, in ambitiously seeking the inheritance. Out they must, therefore, together: as all hypocrites one day must be cast out of God's kingdom. Heaven is an "undefiled inheritance": no dirty dog ever trampled on that golden pavement. There is no passing e coeno in coelum. Heaven would be no heaven to the unregenerate. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments; and swine love mud better than a garden.
“ Quid Paris? ut salvus regnet vivatque beatus,
Cogi posse negat .”
“What of Paris? To reign in saftey and live in happiness,
- nothing, he says, can force him.”
- Horat., epist. 2, lines 9, 10.