And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Ver. 21. And he arose, &c., and came into the land of Israel] Glad they were got out of such a hell as Egypt, Eze 20:7-8 where the Israelites having been for a time, brought back with them a golden calf; Jeroboam brought home two; and these good souls could not but get and gather guilt or grief. Hence David's moans at Mesech, Psa 120:5 Lot's vexation at Sodom, Jeremiah's wish for a cottage in the wilderness, far enough off from those adulterers and assemblies of treacherous men, those sacrificing Sodomites, Jer 9:2 of whom it might be said, as Aaron of the people, that they were wholly set upon sin, Exodus 32:22; 1 John 5:19. But some of the saints forsake all (said Marsh the martyr) and commit themselves to painful exile, that, if it please God, Christ may come again out of Egypt. (Acts and Mon.)