“And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.”
Abraham says: make sure you do not take my son back there. The instruction is firm and absolute. Isaac must not return to Mesopotamia — not because it is a bad place but because the promised land is where the covenant is enacted. Hebrews 11:15 observes that if the patriarchs had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return — they deliberately did not return. The application: there are exits from the promised land that must not be taken, even when circumstances seem to argue for them.
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