And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Ver. 15. And the water was spent in the bottle.] All creature comforts will fade and fail us; as the brook Cherith dried up while the prophet was drinking of it; as those pools about Jerusalem, that might be dried up, with the tramplings of horse and horsemen. 2Ki 19:24 But they that drink of Christ's water shall never thirst; for it shall be in them (as the widow's oil, or Aaron's ointment) "a well of water springing up to eternal life". Joh 4:14
She cast the child, &c.] Whom till then she had led in her hand, faint, and ready to die for thirst; who while he lived at the full in his father's house, but could not be contented. God loves to let us see the worth of his favours by the want of them; a to chasten men's insolency with indigency, as he did the prodigal in the gospel.
a Carendo potius quam fruendo.