The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 364

EXPOSITION. Yer. l 0. -And the servant took ten cameh nrose, a.nd went-if 11,Jong tho clirect rnute, of the camels of his master,-to bear the then " through Palestine along tho west presents for the bride, to enhnnce the dignity side of the Jordan and the lakes, into the c,f Ids mission, and to serve as o. mealll! of Buk'nh, and out through the land of Hnmath transport for the bride and her companions on to the Euphrates, and thence" (' Lnud and 1l,e return journey. On the worcl G~rnal Book,' p. 591)-to Meaopote.mie.,-Aram- ,,·ide eh. xii. 16 - and departed. Either Nahai-airn, i. o. the Arnm of tho two rivers; from Hebron (eh. x.xiii. 19), or from the Aram meaning the high re~on, from aram, south country, near Beer-laha)-roi (eh. xxiv. to be high-au ancient nncl domestic namo (i2). For e.11 the goods of his master were for Syria, not altogether unknown to the ill his hand. Literally, and every g~od Greeks; 'ltuie Hom., 'II.,' ii. 783; Hos., thing of his rnaster in his hand,· meanmg 'Theog:,' 304; Strabo, xiii. 4 (Gesenius). that he selected (sc. as presents for the bride) Standing alone it signifies Western Syrin every best thing- that belongeu to his master (Jnuges iii. 10; 1 Kings x. 29; xi. 25; xv. -d 2 liings viii. 9 (LXX., Vulf{ate, .Murp~y, 18), and especially Syria of Damo.scus (2 Sam. Kalisch), though some regard 1t as explam- viii. 6; Isa. vii. 1, 8; Amos i. 5); when ing how he, the servant, was ab)e to s~rt .Mesopotamia is intemleu it is conjoined with UJ.>on hi£ journey with such an equ1pe.gc, viz., Naharaim (upon Egyptian monuments l,ecause, or for, he hau supreme comw:md Xaharina; wide 'Records of the Past,' vol. over his master's household (C11lvin, Rosen- ii. pp. 32, 61, 67), the two rivers being the niii!ltr, 'Rr"aker's Commentary'). And he Tigris and the Euphrates, or Padan, the r·11, XXlV, 10-28.] TIIE BOOK OF GENESIS. ,'JOI