And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And the servant ran to meet her,…. He did not stop her as she went to the well, but stayed till she had been there and filled her pitcher, and then he made all the haste he could to meet her, in order to have the sign and token answered he had requested, which could not be done until she returned:
and said, let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher; or taste a little of it, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; or suffer me to swallow a little of it; for it was not so much to quench his thirst that he asked for this, for he could have got, and perhaps had had water out of the well before this time, or however could easily have supplied himself; but this was done to try whether she was the person, and whether her conduct and carriage would answer the token. Josephus x says, he asked other virgins and they refused him, for which churlishness Rebekah rebuked them, and gave him water liberally.
x Antiqu. l. 1. c. 16. sect. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
17. The servant ran To him the fair young virgin appears all that he had desired and hoped to meet .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Ver. 17. And the servant ran to meet her. ] For although he was at the well before, praying, Gen 24:13 yet, having stood at a distance till she had done drawing, he now ran to meet her. Though marriages are made in heaven, and a good wife must be sought of God, adhibenda tamen sunt media ordinaria et ordinata, yet due means must be used, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Let: 1Ki 17:10, Joh 4:7, Joh 4:9
water of: Gen 26:1-35, Isa 21:14, Isa 30:25, Isa 35:6, Isa 35:7, Isa 41:17, Isa 41:18, Isa 49:10