Genesis 31:1
_After that six years were expired, and calumnies and ill-will attended Jacob in Laban's family, God ordered him to retire, ver. 3. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_After that six years were expired, and calumnies and ill-will attended Jacob in Laban's family, God ordered him to retire, ver. 3. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ten times. Very often, or perhaps this exact number of times, ver. 41._... [ Continue Reading ]
_All, or the far greatest part, so that I was exceedingly enriched. (Menochius) --- The Septuagint here agrees with the Vulgate. But the Hebrew and other versions, instead of white ones, read of divers colours, or ring-streaked, which takes away th intended opposition. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Are _of divers colours. Their fancy was strongly impressed with thee various colours, in consequence of the pilled rods, which they beheld: and which Jacob was directed by the angel to place in the troughs. --- I have seen with displeasure, the injustice of Laban; (Haydock) and therefore, I, the Lor... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eaten up. Laban kept for himself the dowry paid by Jacob for his wives, though he ought to have allotted it to them, with the addition of something more, in proportion to his immense wealth. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gotten. Hebrew expresses over again, the cattle of his getting, &c., which is omitted in one manuscript, as well as in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, though yet used in the Samaritan copy. (Kennicott) --- To Isaac, who was still living, though he had apprehended death was at hand 20 y... [ Continue Reading ]
Her father's idols. By this it appears that Laban was an idolater: and some of the fathers are of opinion, that Rachel stole away these idols, to withdraw him from idolatry, by removing the occasion of his sin. (Challoner) --- Others think she was herself infected with this superstition, until Jacob... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away. Hebrew, "Jacob stole the heart of Laban," concealing his flight from him. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The river Euphrates. --- Galaad, as it was called afterwards, ver. 48. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Third day. He was gone to shear his sheep, distant three days' journey._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Speak not. Laban did not comply exactly, but he used no violence. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Slain. Homer says, "the father judges his children and wives;" and thus Jacob pronounces sentence. The Rabbins pretend it and its effect soon after in the death of Rachel, chap. xxxv. 18. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Vain. For who would imagine, that a woman should treat in this manner the objects of her father's adoration? (Calmet) --- It would hence appear, that she did not herself adore them, unless fear overcame her religion. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Angry. He was extremely quiet. But patience abused, turns to fury. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Exact it. Laban acted in opposition both to custom and to justice, (Calmet) while Jacob forebore to claim what he might have done, agreeably to both. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXXI. _ The fear of Isaac; or of that God, whom Isaac fears, on account of the danger to which he is exposed of losing his friendship; a thing which, Abraham being now departed in peace, has not to dread. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Are mine, or proceed from me originally; so that if I were to injure them, I should disregard the dictates of nature. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Testimony. Hebrew makes Laban give this etymology, Jegar-saha-dutha; while Galaad means the hill or the witness. The Syrian language had now begun to deviate some little from the Hebrew of Jacob. --- Each, &c. This is added by the Vulgate. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold. Hebrew, "and Mitspah," or "Hammitspah," the watch-tower, whence God will see us. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Over them. A wise precaution, which the rich Turks still observe when they give their daughters in marriage. (Busbeq. ep. 3.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have, &c. One Samaritan copy reads very properly, "thou hast set up," ( yarithi), ver. 45. (Kennicott)._... [ Continue Reading ]
_God of Nachor. Hebrew uses Elohim, which is often applied to idols, such as Nachor worshipped along with the true God. (Calmet) --- Jacob swears by the one only God, whom his father revered. (Menochius) --- The God of their father, is omitted in the Septuagint and is deemed an interpolation by Kenn... [ Continue Reading ]
_Night ( de nocte) when it was just at an end, and day-light appeared. --- His daughters, with Dina, &c. Thus all ended well and in peace, by the divine interposition, after the most serious alarms. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]