Behold, now thy servant hath found grace in thy
sight
In sending two of his angels to him, to inform him of the
approaching destruction of Sodom; to pluck him out of it as a
brand out of the burning, and to place him without the city, and
in directing and encouraging him to escape for his life:
and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast showed
unto me in
saving my life;
he owns it was owing to the mercy of this illustrious Person,
whom he knew and acknowledges, by what he says, to be a divine
one, that his life was saved; and that this appeared exceeding
great in it, that he should spare him and his family, when such
multitudes of souls would perish; and he might have perished with
the rest, if he had not had timely notice in such a gracious
manner: and I cannot,
or, "but now F24, I cannot" escape to the
mountain;
it is too far for me; he signifies that his strength would not
hold out through the fatigues of the night past, and want of
sleep and rest; but this was owing more to the infirmity of his
mind than of his body, for he could go to this same mountain
afterwards: lest some evil take me, and I die;
or "that evil" F25, the burning of Sodom, and the
cities of the plain, lest that should overtake him before he got
to the mountain: thus he began to distrust the power of God to
strengthen him to go thither, who had appeared so wonderfully for
him in his present deliverance; and he might have assured
himself, that he that brought him out of Sodom would never suffer
him to perish in the destruction of it.