And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Ver. 6. That thou bring not my son thither again.] Where yet he had never been, but in his father's loins. He would not his son should part with the Promised Land for any outward accommodations. "Let us fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into God's rest, any of us should seem to come short, to fail back, or be left behind". υστερηκεναι , Heb 4:1 Take we all heed lest, for our lingering and hankering after the flesh pots of Egypt, God carry us back again into Egypt, which was the last and greatest curse threatened against the people of Israel, and is the greatest misery that can come upon this nation. Deu 28:68