CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 28:3. A multitude of people.] Heb. “To a congregation of peoples.” This is the same word which was afterwards applied to the assembled people of God. It corresponds to the ἐκκλησία.— GENESIS 28:5. BETHUEL, THE SYRIAN.] Not because he was of the race of Aram, the son of She... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 28:9. Then went Esau unto Ishmael.] To his family, and not to Ishmael himself, who had been dead for fourteen years. (Genesis 25:17.)— _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 28:6_ ESAU, THE TYPE OF WORLDLINESS AND HYPOCRISY Esau attempts to repair the error into whic... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place.] “The term means _he fell upon the place,_ as the providential stopping-place incidentally coming upon it, or coming up to it, as the lodging place for the night. This place was about forty-eight miles from Beersheba, and eight mi... [ Continue Reading ]