{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5816","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":21,"chapter_to":21,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"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>Jerome</b>: (Verse 15, 16.) And she put the boy under a tree, and went and sat opposite him, as if shooting an arrow. She said, 'I will not see the death of my child.' And she sat opposite him. And immediately it happened: The boy cried out, and wept, and God heard the voice of the boy from the place where he was. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and so on, let no one move. In Hebrew, after what is written, 'I will not see the death of my child,' it is read that Hagar herself sat opposite the boy, and raised her voice, and wept, and God heard the voice of the child. For when the mother was weeping and waiting miserably for the death of her son, God heard the boy, of whom He had promised to Abraham, saying: 'But I will also make your slave woman's son into a great nation' (Gen. XVII, 20). Otherwise, the mother herself mourned not her own death, but that of her son. Therefore, God spared her, for whom there had been weeping. Finally, it is said in what follows: 'Rise up and take the boy, and hold his hand' (Gen. XVII, 18). From this it is clear that the one who is held is not a burden to his mother, but a companion. And when someone is held by the hand of a parent, their concerned affection is shown.<br/><i>— Hebrew Questions on Genesis</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Hagar therefore \"was wandering through the desert\" with the boy, and the boy was weeping, and Hagar cast him away, saying, \"let me not see the death of my son.\" After these things, when, being cast off, he had been as if about to die and had wept, the angel of the Lord is present to her \"and opened Hagar's eyes, and she saw a well of living water.\" How can these things be referred to the history? For where do we find that Hagar had her eyes closed and that they were opened afterward? Is not the spiritual and mystical understanding in these things clearer than light, that the people who is \"according to the flesh\" has been cast off, and lies so long in hunger and thirst, enduring \"not a hunger of bread nor a thirst of water, but a thirst for the word of God,\" until the eyes of the synagogue are opened? This is what the Apostle says is a \"mystery,\" namely that \"blindness has happened in part in Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles should enter in, and then all Israel should be saved.\" This then is the blindness in Hagar, who begot \"according to the flesh,\" which remains in her so long, until \"the veil of the letter be taken away\" by the angel of God and she see \"the living water.\" For now the Jews lie around the well itself, but their eyes are closed and they cannot drink from the well of the law and the prophets. But let us too beware, because frequently we too lie around the well \"of living water,\" that is, around the divine scriptures, and we wander in them. We hold the books and we read, but we do not reach the spiritual sense. And therefore there is need of tears and unceasing prayer, that the Lord may open our eyes, because those blind men too who sat in Jericho, unless they had cried out to the Lord, their eyes would not have been opened. And why do I say, that our eyes may be opened, which are already open? For Jesus came to open the eyes of the blind. Our eyes therefore are open, and from the letter of the law the veil has been taken away. But I fear lest we ourselves close them again with a deeper sleep, while we do not keep watch in the spiritual understanding nor are anxious to shake off sleep from our eyes and contemplate the things that are spiritual, lest, being placed with the carnal people around the water itself, we wander; but rather let us keep watch and say with the prophet: \"if I shall give sleep to my eyes, and slumber to my eyelids, or rest to my temples, until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.\" \"To him be glory and dominion unto the ages of ages. Amen.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 7.6</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: THE ANGEL'S WORDS TO HAGAR. — And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree. And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept. And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Hagar? fear not, for God has heard the voice of the child from the place where he is. Rise up, and take the child, and hold him in your hand, for I will make him a great nation . The question is often asked how, when the child was more than fifteen years old, his mother threw him under a tree and left at a distance as a bow shot so as not to see him die. The text appears as if she had thrown down the child she was carrying, especially considering what follows: ‘the child began to mourn’. But it must be understood here that the child was thrown, not by the one who carried him, but, as is often the case, by his state of mind, thinking that he was going to die. For concerning these words of the Scripture: I am cast out from the sight of your eyes (Ps. 30:23), neither was any man has said this. On the other hand, in ordinary language there is the habit of saying something similar when one says that he is thrown by another with whom he was with, so that he does not see or remain with him. It must be understood, then, that the Scripture omitted to say that the mother separated herself from her son so that the child did not know where the mother had gone, and that she hid among the woods in the forest so as not to see her child die of thirst. What, then, is it strange that, even at his age, he would burst into tears when he had not seen his mother for so long and thought that he had been lost in the place where he remained alone? In relation to what the Scripture says: Take the child, he was not told to take it from the ground, as if he were lying there, but to join him and then give him the hand to accompany him, as he was, thing That usually do those who walk together of any age that they are. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 53 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d2558ed7a07fcd5d6b26d08eed3f8e4a8082266b44f0ffdddff2c44cfd08a381","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5816,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"deddebceb6a220973706008b35e3cc3e6cfd7b2fbdddf9237acecde6168bb7f9","translator":null,"work":null}