And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
56. to my master ] The servant entreats that there should be no delay. He wishes to return with the bride to his master. Whether this is Abraham or Isaac, is not stated. But, judging from Gen 24:65, there is ground for the supposition that Isaac is intended.
Otherwise, the servant’s haste may be supposed to have been dictated by a knowledge of Abraham’s failing condition. If so, it is strange that there is no mention of Abraham on the return.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Gen 24:56
Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way
The Christians hindrances
The Lord hath prospered our way.
He has provided means for our return to Him. He has awakened us from entire carelessness. He has bestowed upon us thus far all the comfort and peace which we have received, and enabled us to do all that we have done for Him. Our past prosperity is an unceasing encouragement to future effort, and may be employed as an answer to every hindrance. Under this view would I adopt the expression of our text.
I. It is the entreaty of an awakened sinner returning to the Lord. Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. A new and living way of salvation invites him. But there are many adversaries. The worldly and careless around him scoff at his fears, and deride his apprehensions. They know not the terrors of an awakened conscience, and they can mock when fear cometh. Hinder me not, the persecuted penitent replies. I have seen enough of worldly cheerfulness and mirth. I have seen that the end of that laughter is bitterness. The sorrows of a sinners death-bed I will not try. The portion of the worldly shall not be mine. He offers me forgiveness, and I will embrace it.
II. The words of our text may be the prayer of the new convert to Christ–the Christian who has just experienced the new creating grace of God;hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. The character of God appears to him full of glory, and shining in love. The great salvation which He has offered, seems worthy of all acceptation. His whole heart is arrested and occupied with the objects and excitements of this first love. But there are many hindrances surrounding this infantile state of grace. At one time he meets a sneer from some former companion in folly, at another, a false and unkind construction of the motives by which he is governed in his new determinations. The merely nominal Christian, the cold and carnally minded professor, hates him, as one who assumes a higher standard of religious character than he is pleased with. These various outward trials are severe.
III. But hindrances do not disappear, even when men become old in grace. Our text may, therefore, be the petition of the Christian who is established in the faith; hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. Through the whole period of a mortal life, he not only dwells in a laud of enemies, but drags about with himself a weight which is painfully retarding. There arises often around him a cloud of darkness, which hides all his evidences of grace, and conceals the blessed witness which God has given him within himself. Momentary feelings of unbelief intrude themselves into his breast. Occasional coldness and torpidity spreads itself through the members of his spiritual man, threatening permanent paralysis and death. He obtains larger conceptions of the depravity of his own heart; and his soul often sickens over the views which are presented to him, as the Spirit of God carries him still farther into its recesses, and exposes to his observation greater abominations than he has seen before. Then does he exclaim in the language of our text, Hinder me not, for the Lord hath prospered my way. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, though I fall, yet shall I rise again; and though I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Sin has been pardoned; God has received, and is able to keep me. I have entered into a covenant with Him, from which I will never shrink, to walk before Him, and to be His for ever.
IV. Lastly, I may consider this as the demand of the faithful minister of the Gospel. Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. This joy would be vastly increased were there none disposed to hinder his way, and to retard the progress of the word of God. (S. H. Tyng, D. D.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
And he said unto them, hinder me not,…. Do not detain me, let me set forward on my journey:
seeing, the Lord hath prospered my way; succeeded him in what he came about; and by his being succeeded so well, and so soon, it seemed to be the mind of the Lord that he should hasten his journey homeward:
send me away, that I may go to my master; and carry him the good news of his success, and attend his domestic affairs, over which he was set.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
56. Hinder me not The servant is too anxious to break the glad news of his success to his master .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘And he said to them. Do not hold me back seeing that Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.’
The steward does not want to be delayed and uses as grounds for his quick departure the fact that he has been on a mission determined by Yahweh. The implication may be that his return is also as a result of Yahweh’s instigation.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Gen 24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
Ver. 56. Hinder me not. ] Say we so to Satan soliciting us to stay a while in our old courses and companies.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Hinder: Gen 45:9-13, Pro 25:25
prospered: Jos 1:8, Isa 48:15
Reciprocal: Gen 24:21 – the Lord Gen 24:54 – Send me Gen 30:25 – Send me away Luk 10:4 – and 1Co 9:12 – hinder