Holy Scripture
Genesis 16:9
A church father on this verse
“The literal sense is clear enough. From the point of view of allegory, it is suggested that even in the case of one who has done a purposeless act that he believes to be obligatory for those who revere the shadow of the law and who is in a sense fleeing from its spiritual sense, the Word of the Master brings him back…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
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In context
7And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8And the angel of the Lord said to her, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou? and she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.
— Genesis 16:9 —
10And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, for the Lord hath hearkened to thy humiliation.