And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
Ver. 11. And the thing was very grievous, &c.] See, there is grief sometimes between the best couples as above said. Gen 16:5 But why was it so grievous to cast out Ishmael, when in the next chapter, it seems no such grief to him to slay Isaac? Surely for that, here, he hears only his wife's voice: there he well understood it to be the will of God. Veniat, veniat verbum Domini, et submittemus illi, sexcenta si nobis essent colla, said that reverend Dutchman. a When Abraham came to know it was God's will as well as Sarah's, he soon yielded.
a Baldassar in Epist. ad Oecolamp.