Genesis 24:15

It came to pass, &c.— Before he had done speaking, before he had mentally uttered this prayer, see Genesis 24:45. God, whose ears are ever open to the petitions of those who trust in him, prevented, as it were, his desires: and Rebekah, with her pitcher on her shoulder, appeared. What an image of the simplicity of the first ages! Indeed in that view nothing can be more pleasing than this whole transaction. Hesiod and Homer, representing the simplicity of the early ages, have passages very similar to, and, perhaps, borrowed from this. See Odyss. vii. 20. xx. 105. Nothing can be more amiable, than the colours in which the sacred historian paints the lovely, benevolent Rebekah.