Genesis 21:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Ver. 14. And Abraham rose up early.] He was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but set upon the execution of God's will with expedition. Voluntas Dei, necessitas rei. A godly man says Amen to God's Amen, go it never so much against the hair with him: he puts his fiat, his assent to God's; and saith, as Act 21:14 "The will of the Lord be done," which was Vox vere Christianorum, as one said.

Genesis 21:14

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.