For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
Ver. 18. For I will surely deliver thee.] Heb., Delivering, deliver thee. It would be a great stay of mind, if God should say the same to us in particular and by name, as he doth here to this Ethiopian. And yet he saith no less to us in the precious promises, which we are by faith to appropriate.
But thy life shall be for a prey unto thee.] Pro lucre cessura est. For saving my prophet's life, thou shall have thine own; so sure a gain is godliness.
Because thou hast put thy trust in me.] What may not faith have at God's hands? Those that trust him, do, after a sort, engage him to deliver them, and to do them good.