{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5815","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":21,"chapter_to":21,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Eusebius of Emesa</b>: But was the just Abraham inhumane in that he did not even supply Hagar and the boy with a donkey, with all the cattle he possessed? Some say it was a gesture of kindness, so that she would not have to look after the donkey; others say that he did this believing that God would protect the boy. But why does he throw her out in the first place? Was it not that he wished to have peace with his wife? And indeed he really did not want to send her away at all, for it is written that the thing appeared extremely harsh to Abraham. So he would not have done what he did except for the fact that God said to him, let not this matter trouble you, etc.<br/><i>— CATENA ON Genesis 3.1216</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 14) And he took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. When Isaac was born, Ishmael was thirteen years old. And after he was weaned, he was expelled from the house with his mother. However, among the Hebrews, there are different opinions, with some claiming that the time for weaning is set at the fifth year, and others claiming the twelfth year. Therefore, to choose a shorter age, we have calculated that Ishmael was expelled with his mother after eighteen years, and it is no longer possible for him to have sat on his mother's lap as a young man. So it is true that the Hebrew language has the word 'infant' to refer to every child in relation to their parents. It is not surprising that a foreign language has its own peculiarities, since even today in Rome all children are called 'infants'. Therefore, Abraham placed bread and a skin of water on Hagar's shoulder and, having done this, he gave the child to his mother, that is, he handed him over to her, entrusted him to her care, and thus sent him out of the house. As for what follows:<br/><i>— Hebrew Questions on Genesis</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Let us see meanwhile what Abraham does, after Sarah was indignant. He casts out the slave-woman and her son, but nevertheless gives her a skin of water. For his mother does not have a well of living water, nor could the boy draw water from a well. Isaac has wells, for which he even endures conflicts against the Philistines; but Ishmael drinks water from a skin, but this skin, as a skin, fails, and therefore he thirsts and does not find a well. But you, who are \"according to Isaac\" a son \"of the promise,\" \"drink waters from your own fountains, and let not the waters from your wells flow forth outside, but let your waters run in your streets.\" But that one, \"who was born according to the flesh,\" drinks water from a skin, and the water itself fails him and fails in many things. The skin is the letter of the law, from which that carnal people drinks, and thence takes understanding; which letter frequently fails him and cannot explain itself; for in many things the historical understanding suffers failure. But the Church drinks from the Evangelical and Apostolic fountains, which never fail, but \"run in their streets,\" because in the breadth of the spiritual interpretation they always abound and flow. It drinks also \"from wells,\" when it draws and searches out whatever deeper things there are from the law. On account of this mystery, I think, our Lord and Savior too said to the Samaritan woman, where, as if he were speaking with Hagar herself, he said: \"everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; but he who drinks of the water which I give him shall not thirst forever.\" But she says to the Savior: \"give me, Lord, this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.\" After these things the Lord says to her: \"he who believes,\" he says, \"in me, there shall be made in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 7.5</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: RETURN OF HAGAR AND ISHMAEL. — And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away . It’s often asked how he put such a big boy on her shoulder. For Ishmael had been circumcised at the age of thirteen, before Isaac was born, when Abraham was ninety-nine years old (Cf. Gen. 17:17-24). Isaac was born when his father was one hundred years old. Ishmael was playing with Isaac when Sarah saw him with concern (Cf. Gen. 21:9), Isaac was already a big boy, since he had already been weaned. For all this, it is evident that Ishmael was more than sixteen years old when he was expelled with his mother from his father's house. Now, even if we consider that it was said in recapitulation that he played with Isaac when he was still very young, before being weaned, nevertheless, it is too absurd to believe that a child, even in this case of more than thirteen years, had been placed on the shoulder of his mother, with a wineskin and some loaves. The question is solved very easily if we do not understand \"put\", but \"gave\". For Abraham, as it is written, gave to his mother loaves and a wineskin, which she put on her shoulder. When it was added and said: also the child, we must understand was \"gave\" the same that gave her the loaves and the wineskin, and he did not \"put the child on her shoulder.\" [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 52 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"92dc1c1311468a38c41ddbcc0151a891bee14bcccf5bcb4329d588ae4b0eb1cb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5815,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5bd0e84a637fbd18122bb8d6feb0b1c7057304822dbf1331d87b8fe06838edc6","translator":null,"work":null}