창세기 24:56의 인용 해설

Who among you will tell³²Our editions have יאזין will give ear; but I. E. reads instead יגיד will tell. this, will tell things like those which the prophet, whom you declared to be blind, proclaimed. לאחור For the time to come. Comp. תאחרו you keep me waiting³³A. V., Hinder me not. (Gen. 24:56);

וישלח את אחיו, he gave them permission to leave, as when the angel had said to Yaakov (after the wrestling match) שלחני כי עלה השחר, “let me go for dawn has risen.” (32,27) and שלחוני ואלכה לאדוני “let me go, that I may go back to my lord.” (24:56).

We know already from Genesis 18,16 where Avraham escorted the angels who had visited him, that he was in the habit of escorting his guests. This last stage in fulfilling the commandment of being hospitable is in fact the part for which the host receives his true reward. We find, for instance, that immediately after Avraham had escorted the angels away from his house, G’d rewarded him by revealing to him the impending fate of Sodom and giving him a chance to plead for their lives. We find something similar in Psalms 135,4 where the psalmist wrote כי יעקב בחר לו י-ה, and the reading of the last two words is one word, i.e. לויה, suggesting that the reason G’d chose Yaakov as His people was because they practice the virtue of escorting their guests. We find that the Torah also provides a hint of this when relating the journey of Eliezer to get a bride for Yitzchak. In Genesis 24,56 Eliezer is quoted as saying to his hosts: אל תאחרו אותי וה' הצליח דרכי, “do not delay me seeing that G’d has made my mission successful.” (The respective last letters in the words spell אל תאחרו אותי וה-י-ה-ו-ה spell the word לויה, “escort.)”