And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Ver. 2. And the Lord appeared unto him.] God knows our souls, and our souls him, best in adversity. See Zechariah 13:9. This famine was to the Canaanites in the nature of a curse; to Isaac, of a cure. Hinc distinctio illa poenae in conferentem et nocentem, sive in suffocantem et promoventem; item in poenam vindictae et poenam cautelae, sire in condemnantem et corrigentem.