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Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing.

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Chapter XXXI.—Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing.

Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means4149 of possessing it.  Let us think4150 over the things which have taken place from the beginning.  For what reason was our father Abraham blessed?  Was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith?  Isaac,4151 with perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen,4152 cheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice.4153  Jacob, through reason4154 of his brother, went forth with humility from his own land, and came to Laban and served him; and there was given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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  1. 4149

    Literally, “what are the ways of His blessing.”

  2. 4150

    Literally, “unroll.”

  3. 4151

    Comp. James ii. 21.

  4. 4152

    Some translate, “knowing what was to come.”

  5. 4153

    Gen. xxii. 6–10.

  6. 4154

    So Jacobson:  Wotton reads, “fleeing from his brother.”