o Nor for any ſenſe of his former ſin, in deſpiſing his Birth-rishr, but for grief ar his great loſs therein, hecauſe God would not ſuffer him to be perjur'd in keeping thatBixth-right-bleſſing which he had ſold and ſworn away. p (z e.) Thou art my Father no leſs than his, and therefore as a Child, I claim a ſhare in thy Bleſfling.
35 And he ſaid, Thy. brother came with ſubtilty, and hath taken away. thy blefling 9. |
q Which was thine by the right of Nature, and by cuſtom of Na. tions, and by my hearty deſire and intention, as well as by thy own expectation and opinion.
35 4nd he ſaid, * Isnot he rightly named 4 Jacob * Chap: r ? for he hath ſupplanted me theſe two times: * he 25:.26-, took away my birth-right s: and behold, now he hath T forked taken away my blefling. And he ſaid, Haſt thou mt re- e-, oY ſerved a blefling for me ? * Chap: *
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his Brothers Heels. s A falſe Accuſation ; Jacob did not tile "xg ceitfully, bur Eſau ſold it profanely. | 37 And Ifaac anſwered and ſaid unto Eſau, Behold IT have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have L given to him for ſervants ; and with corn ard wine | have I Þ ſuſtained him : and what ſhall I do ncw unto E thee ?, my ſon ? F ws oy. # The bleſling of Abraham is not at my diſpoſa?, but God's, who es I hath manifeſted his Mind and Will by my Errcr ; it cannot be di- . vided into ſeveral hands, nor imparted to ons, Who, tho my Son, © | yet hath mage kimiclf unworthy of it,
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* Heb 12. ther. And Eſcu jiit up bis voice, * and wept. hs « By which wor: £/:14 manifeſts his profane and worl !ly Mind, thit he eſftcemed tis Ble!ting bur as one among many others equal to it, and did nor apprehoad toe true and peculiar excellency and abſolute p<ciliiry of 1r, and that it was impoſſible for him or his Poſterity to be tuppy v 1t10Ut an interc{t in this Covenant, and con-
tinuance ia ihr Church ro which it was appropriated. 29 And ilaac his father an{wered,aud ſaid unto him, * Ver. 29. Behold, * chy dwelling ftall be | the facrneſs of the
Heb. 1:5. earth, and of the dew of heaven from above x 20. x In a Country competeatly fruitful and refreſhed with conve- + Or, of nient Dews and Showers. Obj. Thus Eſau ſeems ro have the ſame the farnels. Bleſſing which was before given to Jacob Av. 1. Tho it may ſeem to be the ſame asto the fertility of the Soil, in which divers other parts of the World did and do equal the Land cf Canaan;yet there 1s an obſervable difference in the manner of 1ſaac's Expreflion. When he ſpeaks of Eſau, he only faith, Thy dwelling ſhall be the fat- neſs, &c. But when he ſpeaks to Jacob, heſaith, God give thee,- or ſhall give thee of the faracſs, &c. which words being, as it may ſeem, purpoſely omitted concerning Eſau, and ſo empharically expreſled concerning Jacob, ſeem to intimart, eſpecially if compared with ma- ny other Scriptures where that Phraſe is applied to good Men, that Eſjau's fat Soil was rather taken by himſelf, than given by God ; or if given by God to him, it was only by his general Providence by which he giveth food ro all Creatures; whereas Jacob's fat and fruit- ful Soil was derived to him and his by God's ſp: cial gift,as a token of his ſingular kindneſs, and pledge of greater Bleſſings. 2. This is but one branch of the Blefſing, the other part which concerns Dignity and Superiority, is expreſly given to Jacob, werſe 29. and
denied to Eſa, werſe 40.
40 And by thy ſword ſhalt thou live y, and baltfſerve * . Gm, thy brother : and * it ſhallcome to pals when thou ſhale 8.14. TÞ have the dominion z, that thou ſhalt break his yoke
2 Kings8. from off thy neck. EE 20- » By Violeace and Rapine, inan unquiet and military Poſture, 1 Or,have troub/ing fhcrs,; and forced to defend thy ſelf. But this,as alſo the mourned, following Clauſe, tho ſpoken ro Eſau, was not fulfilled in him,bur or, ben jn, his Poſterity the Edomites, whoſe Hiſtory makes good this. Pro- d-jcited, hecy. Thus things ſpoken and promiſed to Abraham vere fullil- Pal: 55:2. Jed in his Poſteriry, as Gen. 12. 3. and 22.18, » When thou |halt grow potent. Some render the words thus, When thou ſhalt have mourned or groaned, as the ſame word is uſed, Pſalia 55. 2. When s thou haſt oppreſſed as long as I think fit. | 41 Y ind Efau hated Jacob b, becauſe of the blefling wherewith his father bleſſed him: and Eſau faid in his
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See Ezek: 35: 5: Amos 1: 11: Obad: v; 10. c Within himlelft Although he could not contain it there, but declared his intentions to ſome of his Confidents, by which means it came ro Rebekah's ear. y. 42 And theſe words of Eſau her elder ſon were to'd to Rebekah : and ſhe ſent andcalled her younger ſon, andſzid unto him, Behold, thy brother Eſau, as couch- ing thee, doth comfort himſelf, purp-/ing to kill thee.
43 Now therefore, my ſon, obey my voice: and a- riſe, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.
44 Andtarry with him * a few days 4, until thy bro- thers fury curn away.
4 So ſhe expeRed and intended, but was greatly diſappointed, for he tarri:d there twenry years.
45 Unriil thy brothers enger turn away from thee,and he forget :5as which thou haſt done to him: then 1 will ſend, and fetch thee from thence. Why thould I be de-
4 Or,even, Prived Þ alſo of you both in one day e ?
e Of thee by Eſaz's bloody Hands ; and of £ſav, who was likely to ſuffer Dcath for his Murther, eirher by the Authority of the Ma- giſtrat, as God commanded, Ger: 9: 6: or by the hand of Ged,who oft times ſupplies the Magiſtrats defe&s in that pirticular, and in ſome extraordinary manner exceutes this Vengeance. See Gen, 4. IT, 16, As 28. 4. |
46 And Rebekah ſaid to Ifaac,* I am weary of my life, becauſe of the daughters of Heth |: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, ſuch as theſe which are of the
daughters of the land, what good ſhall my life do mef ?