Genesis — Chapter 21
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Verse 12
Let it not.] It seemed so hard, inhumane, and vniust to cast Agar and Ismael out of the house, that Abraham would not haue done it, vnles God had commanded him in this to heare the voice of Sara. But when he knew Gods wil therin, not respecting flesh and bloud, nor disputing further of the lawfulnes of the fact, sent them both away, commending them to Gods protection: and so by this separation the familie was made quiet. It represented also a notable Mysterie of the Synagogue of the Iewes and Church of Christ. As S. Augustin doth excellently expound the same, according to S. Paul (Gal. 4.) That Ismaels playing with Isaac was persecution, because it tended to peruert him, shewing it to be a greater iniurie to delude and deceiue anie, in drawing them to new and particular companies, then corporally to persecute them: and that the Church and Catholike Princes punish heretikes for their good, to make them returne to the truth, or finally to cease from seducing others.