HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 16-29. These family records mingle well with the story of God's grace. The mother's "Benoni" is the father's "Benjamin." Out of the pain and the bereavement sometimes comes the consolation. A strange blending of joy and sorrow is the tale ·of human love. But there is a higher love which may draw out the pure stream of peace and calm delight from that impure fountain. Jacob and Esau were separated in their lives, but they met at their father's grave. Death is a. terrible divider, but a muter too. Under the shadow of the great mystery, on the borders of an eternal world, in the presence of those tears which human eyes weep for the dead, even when they can weep no other tears, the evil things of envy, hatred, revenge, alienation do often hide themselves, and the better things of love, peace, brotherhood, nmity come forth. Jacob was with Isaac when he died, and Esau came to the gmve.-R.
§ 10. THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU (CR, XXXVI. 1-XXX\'ll, 1). EXPOSITION. -the daughter-i. e. the grand-claughtor, CHAPTER XXXVI. though, o.fter the LXX. and the Samaritan, Ver. 1.-Now these are the generation, some read the son, as in ver. 24 (Gesenius, (cf. eh. ii. 4 ; v. I, &c. ) of Esau, -Hairy Kalisch, Fiif9t, et alii)-of Zibeon-" Cir (vide eh. xxv. 25)-which is Edom-Red loured" (Guenius) •1 "Wild 1 " "Robber" (vide eh. xxv. 30). (Fiirst) -·the Hivit 0; and Bashema.th - Vers. 2, 3.-Esa.u took hie wives (the "Sweet-smelling" (Gesenius) - Ishmael'e expression refers in this place not to the daughter, sister of Nobajoth-" High Place" marriage, but to the removal, of his wives) of (Gesenius). The difference between this the daughters of Cana.a.n ;-i. e. who were of l\ccount and that previously given (eh. xxvi., the daughters of Canaan (vide eh. xxvi. 84)- 34 ; xxviii. 9) will appear at a. gl<tnce by Adah-" Ornament,"" Beauty" (Gesenius); setting the two lists of wives in pn.rnllel' the name also of one of Lamech's.wives (cf. columns:- eh. iv. 19)-the daughter of Elon-" Oak" 1. Judit.h, daughter l.Aholib:i.wah,daugh- (Gesenius)-the Hittite, and Aholiba.mah- of BeerilheHittite. ter of Ana.h, daugh- " Tent of the High Place" (Gesenius)-the ter c.[ Zibeon tho, daughter of Ana.h-" Answering" (Gesenius) Hivito. EB2 4:20 THE BOOK OF GENESIS. [co. XXXVI. 1-XXXVII. 1.